trigeminal neuralgia

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. tic douloureux.

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trigeminal neuralgia British  

noun

1. pathol another name for tic douloureux

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Etymology

Origin of trigeminal neuralgia

First recorded in 1870–75

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trigeminal neuralgia

After performing at a 2021 trigeminal neuralgia awareness fundraiser in Chicago, he met people who had been living with TN for 10 or 15 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023

An inquest in Portsmouth heard that Mrs Daniels had surgery in 2011 for the rare condition trigeminal neuralgia, which causes facial pain.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2021

“The idea of putting these cells into patients with neuropathic pain is viable,” says Basbaum, who is particularly interested in trigeminal neuralgia, an extreme form of pain that affects the face.

From Nature ● Sep. 10, 2019

Much of the book details Andrew’s hellish 10-year struggle with trigeminal neuralgia, an entangled facial nerve that causes excruciating pain.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2017

The patient, a man sixty-five years old at the time of his death, had suffered for several years from the most violent and intractable epileptiform trigeminal neuralgia, complicated with interesting trophic changes of the tissues.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie