tic douloureux
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tic douloureux
1790–1800; < French: literally, painful tic
Example Sentences
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The patients were victims of an excruciating form of facial neuralgia known as tic douloureux, which often seems doubly painful because the victims know there is no sure relief.
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By doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills.
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Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known.
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The basic cause of tic douloureux, or trigeminal neuralgia,* remains as little understood as the disease's power to set off stabbing, lightninglike pain, as severe as any known to man.
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The baroness had "tic douloureux" which kept her at home,--and which no one regretted.
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