'Neuralgia' definitions:
Definition of 'neuralgia'
(from WordNet)
noun
Acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves [syn: neuralgia, neuralgy]
Definition of 'Neuralgia'
From: GCIDE
- Neuralgia \Neu*ral"gi*a\, n. [NL., from Gr. ney^ron 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'neuralgia'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
- brain disease,
- cephalalgia,
- cerebral palsy,
- chorea,
- emotional disorder,
- epilepsy,
- falling sickness,
- glossopharyngeal neuralgia,
- headache,
- herpes zoster,
- ischialgia,
- migraine,
- MS,
- multiple sclerosis,
- nervous disorder,
- neuritis,
- neuropathy,
- organic psychosis,
- palsy,
- polyneuritis,
- pressure neuropathy,
- priapism,
- radiculitis,
- sciatic neuritis,
- sciatica,
- shaking palsy,
- shingles,
- spastic paralysis,
- the jerks,
- tic douloureux,
- toxic psychosis