neuralgia
noun
sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
neuralgias
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pluralof neuralgia.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Tuberculosis, scrofula, rheumatism, neuralgias, bronchial, and kidney affections are made worse in damp houses.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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
This period is above all things fruitful in trigeminal neuralgias, especially migraine.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
Experience has taught me to agree in general with the opinion of Valleix, that it is a very unreliable agent; the one marked exception to this being the case of ophthalmic neuralgias.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
