neuralgic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Our society has become inured to public disputes over neuralgic moral and social questions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2016
Moreover, why should the prime minister not allow his ministers to follow their conscience, on this most neuralgic of Tory concerns?
From Economist • Jun. 11, 2015
Under these circumstances, the tendency to neuralgic affections rapidly increases.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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