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)
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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