neu·ral·gia

(no͝o-răl′jə, nyo͝o-)

Sharp, severe paroxysmal pain extending along a nerve or group of nerves.

neu·ral′gic adj.

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neuralgia

(njʊˈrældʒɪə)

(Medicine) severe spasmodic pain caused by damage to or malfunctioning of a nerve and often following the course of the nerve

neuˈralgic adj

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neu•ral•gia

(nʊˈræl dʒə, nyʊ-)

n.

sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.

[1815–25]

neu•ral′gic, adj.

neuralgia

a sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve. — neuralgie, adj.

neuralgia

Pain in a nerve, usually caused by injury or inflammation.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

neuralgia - acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

neuralgy

hurting, pain - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension"

tic douloureux, trigeminal neuralgia - intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve

sciatica - neuralgia along the sciatic nerve

Translations

neuralgie

hermosärkyneuralgia

névralgie

nevralgia

neuralgia

[njʊəˈrældʒə] N → neuralgia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

neuralgia

[njʊəˈrældʒə] n → névralgie f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

neuralgia

n → Neuralgie f, → Nervenschmerzen pl

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

neuralgia

[njʊəˈrældʒə] n → nevralgia

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

neu·ral·gi·a

n. neuralgia, dolor intenso a lo largo de un nervio;

atypical facial ___ → ___ facial atípica;

atypical trigeminal ___ → ___ trigeminal atípica;

facial ___ → ___ facial;

glossopharyngeal ___ → ___ glosofaríngea;

hallucinatory ___ → ___ halucinatoria.

neuralgia

n neuralgia; postherpetic — neuralgia postherpética; trigeminal — neuralgia del trigémino

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Frayser resumed before he had time to give her the true reading of the dream--"places where one recovers from rheumatism and neuralgia? Look--my fingers feel so stiff; and I am almost sure they have been giving me great pain while I slept."

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Davis had evidently taken his coffee too strong that morning, there was an east wind, which always affected his neuralgia, and his pupils had not done him the credit which he felt he deserved.

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They put him under laughing-gas one year, poor lad, and drew all his teeth, and gave him a false set, because he suffered so terribly with toothache; and then it turned to neuralgia and ear-ache.

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"Womb trouble" to Ona did not mean a specialist's diagnosis, and a course of treatment, and perhaps an operation or two; it meant simply headaches and pains in the back, and depression and heartsickness, and neuralgia when she had to go to work in the rain.

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It was apparently about 1800, to alleviate mental distress and great physical suffering from neuralgia, that he began the excessive use of opium

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In very much this way Topsy's training proceeded, for a year or two,--Miss Ophelia worrying herself, from day to day, with her, as a kind of chronic plague, to whose inflictions she became, in time, as accustomed, as persons sometimes do to the neuralgia or sick headache.

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