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NEURALGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
Synonyms:
neuralgia; neuralgy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("neuralgy" is a kind of...):
hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuralgy"):
tic douloureux; trigeminal neuralgia (intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve)
sciatica (neuralgia along the sciatic nerve)
Derivation:
neuralgic (of or relating to or suffering from neuralgia)
