trigeminal

[trahy-jem-uh-nl]

adjective

1. of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.

noun

1. Also called trigeminal nerve. either one of the fifth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of mastication, and of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the head and face to the brain.

trigeminal

/ traɪˈdʒɛmɪnəl /

adjective

1. anatomy of or relating to the trigeminal nerve

Word History and Origins

Origin of trigeminal¹

1820–30; < New Latin trigemin ( us ) ( Latin: triple, equivalent to tri- tri- + geminus twin, double) + -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of trigeminal¹

C19: from Latin trigeminus triplet, from _tri- + geminus twin

Example Sentences

She said that she was also diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia earlier in the year.

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In April 2024, Mr Lowe was diagnosed by a consultant neurologist at the Southern Health Trust with a “painful trigeminal neuropathy” which had “the Covid vaccine as its main causative factor”.

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She was battling the chronic pain disorder trigeminal neuralgia.

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They also demonstrated that drugs used to block Nav1.7 -- including carbamazepine, a sodium channel blocker currently used to treat epilepsy and trigeminal neuralgia -- also provided substantial protection from joint damage in the mice.

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Before kicking “Boast Rattle” off, Ayers pauses to set a complimentary mood: “I’m gonna get into the Boasting spirit and talk to you guys about a brain disease I have called trigeminal neuralgia,” he begins.

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