neuralgia
Americannoun
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neuralgias
plural
noun
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antineuralgicadjective
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neuralgicadjective
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postneuralgicadjective
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preneuralgicadjective
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unneuralgicadjective
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There is, as Tbakhi experienced, a potential for continued complications—as well as long-term neuralgic pain called postherpetic neuralgia, blindness, and encephalitis.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Vaccination, which has typically been recommended for older adults, reduces the likelihood of shingles and lowers the risk of postherpetic neuralgia, or long-term nerve pain that can persist after the rash clears.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026
The FDA approved it in 2002 for post-herpetic neuralgia, or nerve pain after shingles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
They were quite familiar with trigeminal neuralgia, the wife explained, because she had it just a couple of years before.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
“I am still tortured a good deal with neuralgia and toothache,” Olmsted wrote, “and I am tired and have a growing dread of worry & anxiety.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The irritability and exhaustibility may be sometimes excessive in neuralgias, sometimes normal, and perhaps, in certain cases, beneath the normal standard; by which means the form of the curve of intensity must be considerably modified.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
This period is above all things fruitful in trigeminal neuralgias, especially migraine.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
On the other extreme we find the neuralgias of the period of bodily decay: these are of very bad prognosis.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
External applications are very efficacious in relieving the neuralgias.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Diseases of bones are extraordinarily frequently the cause of neuralgias in consequence of compression or secondary disease, which affects the branches of nerves passing through canals, foramina, fissures, or over processes of bone.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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