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NEURALGY

Dictionary entry overview: What does neuralgy mean?

• NEURALGY (noun)
The noun NEURALGY has 1 sense:

1. acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

Familiarity information: NEURALGY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NEURALGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

neuralgia; neuralgy

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)

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