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neuralgia Path.|njʊˈrældʒɪə|
[a. mod.L. neuralgia, f. Gr. νεῦρον nerve + ἄλγος pain. Cf. F. névralgie (1801).]
An affection of one or more nerves (esp. of the head or face), causing pain which is usually of an intermittent but frequently intense character; an instance of this, a neuralgic pain.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 217 The term neuralgia has of late been employed by various nosologists to express this group of diseases. 1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 164/2 Neuralgia..may be called a modern disease, as the first distinct description of it that we possess is that published by André, a surgeon of Versailles, in 1756. 1873R. Broughton Nancy III. 80 Mother's neuralgia is very bad, and she is sadly in want of change. 1884H. M. Jones Health of Senses v. 132 The neuro-mimetic, with..fits, neuralgias, aches in every part of the body.
attrib.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 762 The sensory throat neuroses of the climacteric period..may be classed under two headings, ‘paræsthesia’ and ‘neuralgia’ cases.
Hence neuˈralgiac, one affected by, or suffering from, neuralgia.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 482 The risk of permitting any of these abdominal neuralgiacs themselves to get hold of opium in any of its forms. |
