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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Neuralgia

· Neu·ral·gi·a · IPA
01 n. A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, ext…
  1. 1.
    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.(Med.)