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Webster 1913 Edition
Neuralgia
Neu-ral′gi-a
,Noun.
[NL., from Gr.
νεῦρον
nerve + [GREEK] pain. See nerve
.] (Med.)
A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
Dunglison.