Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Neuralgia"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Neuralgia \Neu*ral"gi*a\, n. [NL., from gr. ? nerve + ? pain.
See {nerve}.] (Med.)
A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain,
exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a
nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems
therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be
independent of any structural lesion. --Dunglison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
neuralgia
n : acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
[syn: {neuralgy}]
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