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
Trigeminal neuralgia is usually caused by compression of the trigeminal nerve - which transmits sensations of pain and touch from your face, teeth and mouth to the brain.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
The FDA approved it in 2002 for post-herpetic neuralgia, or nerve pain after shingles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 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
Emphysematous affections are aggravated; diseases of the heart are unfavorably influenced; chronic nervous affections are made worse, and, in particular, neuralgias are aggravated.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
On the other extreme we find the neuralgias of the period of bodily decay: these are of very bad prognosis.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Let me here say that I am inclined to indorse everything in the above-detailed statements, excepting that I should place a considerably higher estimate on the curative powers of the current in ordinary trigeminal neuralgias.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Leucorrhœa, especially when profuse and long-continued, is a much more indisputable factor in many neuralgias.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
The diagnosis of visceral neuralgias is, it need hardly be said, in most cases, a far more difficult and complicated matter.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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