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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Origin of neuralgia
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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
She was battling the chronic pain disorder trigeminal neuralgia.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
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
“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
As regards the prophylactic treatment, it is unnecessary to repeat the remarks which we have made elsewhere upon the general principles of tonic and nutritive medication in neuralgias of every kind.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
The reader will have perceived that, as regards the secondary paralytic symptoms observed in neuralgias, I explain the phenomena mainly on the theory of a process which is central, and not peripheral, in origin.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
In women the period of involution of the sexual apparatus forms a crisis which, in regard to neuralgias, is of great prognostic importance.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
Old neuralgias, that have long ceased to give trouble, occasionally reappear during the convalescence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In severest cases of neuralgias of the head and face it would do its work quick and well.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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