NEURALGIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

Synonyms:

neuralgia; neuralgy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("neuralgia" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuralgia"):

tic douloureux; trigeminal neuralgia (intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve)

sciatica (neuralgia along the sciatic nerve)

Derivation:

neuralgic (of or relating to or suffering from neuralgia)