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What does neuralgia mean?

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Noun
  1. (neurology) An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
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It also can be used to treat functional disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia.
Neuronal inflammation and necrosis leads to severe pain or postherpetic neuralgia, which increases as the infection travels down the nerve.
After several investigations, including computed tomography, he had undergone a trial of carbamazepine for glossopharyngeal neuralgia.
Carson was in his element, joking about the hassles of dunning insurance companies and mentioning, briefly, his interest in trigeminal neuralgia.
For the thousands of people who have trigeminal neuralgia, attacks of such pain are frequent and can often seem unbearable.
It is effective as an antispasmodic for muscle cramps, stiffness, aches, overuse, sprains, bruises, sciatica, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia and poor circulation.

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