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neuralgic

American  
[noo-ral-jik, nyoo-] / nʊˈræl dʒɪk, nyʊ- /

adjective

  1. relating to or caused by neuralgia.


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What is known is that up to 11 percent of patients with certain neurological conditions such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and neuralgic amyotrophy either have HEV antibodies or are infected with the virus.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

Issues like energy or food supplies are “critical, or if you will, neuralgic, points in the relationship between these countries.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

But while unification fixed German borders for the first time in the country’s history, it did little to settle the neuralgic issue of German identity.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2019

Our society has become inured to public disputes over neuralgic moral and social questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2016

Third stage: neuralgic attacks become rare and comparatively unimportant; tendency to trophic changes greatly lessened; local an�sthesia persists.

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