neuralgia
Americannoun
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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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 said that she was also diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia earlier in the year.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
Trigeminal neuralgia is a rare chronic pain disorder that affects nerves in the head and face, resulting in severe and sudden pain, according to the National Institutes of Health.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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
It need hardly be said that cases of this kind are essentially different, and require perfectly different principles of treatment from neuralgias in which the disturbance originates within the nervous tissues themselves.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
With regard to ordinary trigeminal neuralgias, he speaks strongly of the current as a palliative, but very doubtfully of its power to cure, in genuine and severe cases.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
This period is above all things fruitful in trigeminal neuralgias, especially migraine.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Again, the totally feverless commencement of neuralgias, a character which is maintained throughout the progress of the milder cases, is entirely opposed to the idea of a direct connection between myelitis and neuralgia.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Valleix had the great merit to perceive this, even in the case of neuralgias of the head, where appearances are so likely to lead the observer to a contrary opinion.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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