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Definition: Neuralgia |
NeuralgiaNoun1. Acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "neuralgia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Neuralgia \Neu*ral"gi*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression nerve pain. See nerve.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Intense or aching pain that occurs along the course or distribution of a peripheral or cranial nerve. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: NeuralgiaSynonym: neuralgy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Pain | Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Neuralgia |
| English words defined with "neuralgia": Calabar bean ♦ Face ague ♦ herpes zoster ♦ Mastodyny ♦ Nephralgy, neuralgic, Neurotomy ♦ Prosopalgia ♦ sciatica, shingles ♦ trigeminal neuralgia ♦ Veratrine ♦ zoster. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "neuralgia": Amantadine ♦ CHELONANTHUS ACUTANGULUS, ciliary neuralgia ♦ Facial Neuralgia ♦ Postherpetic Neuralgia ♦ Trigeminal Nerve Diseases ♦ writer's neuralgia. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "neuralgia": nerve. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Neuralgia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (neuralgia), Portuguese (neuralgia), Spanish (neuralgia). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Headache and Neuralgia.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Catarrh, neuralgia & headache no more.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Trigeminal neuralgia is not fatal. (references) | |
The type and severity of pain associated with neuralgia vary widely. (references) | ||
Many trigeminal neuralgia patients are controlled with drugs, including carbamazepine. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Neuralgia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neuralgia" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "neuralgia": ciliary neuralgia ♦ Facial Neuralgia ♦ tormented with neuralgia ♦ Trigeminal Neuralgia ♦ writer's neuralgia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "neuralgia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nevralgji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النورالجيا, الألم العصبي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | невралгия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neuralgie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | neuralgi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | neuralgie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پی درد, مرض عصبی , دردعصبی , درداعصاب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hermosärky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | névralgie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Neuralgie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νευραλγία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | idegfájás, neuralgia, idegzsába, idegfájdalom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sakit syaraf (neurosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nevralgia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 神経痛 (nervous disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"けいつう (nervous disorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경통. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nearaljey, chingys chab. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | euralgianay neuralgia. (various references) nevralgie. (various references) невралгия. (various references) neuralgija. (various references) neuralgia. (various references) neuralgi, nervvärk. (various references) อาการปว"ตามเส้นประสาท โ"ยเฉพาะบริเว"หน้า/ศีรษะ. (various references) nevralji, sinir ağrısı. (various references) невралгія. (various references) gieuwst. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | neuron. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "neuralgia": neuralgias. (additional references) | |
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"Neuralgia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euralair, naturalia, neuraigia, neuralga, neuraliga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "neuralgia" (pronounced 'Neu*ral"gi*a'): Enteralgia, Fungia, gastralgia, hemiplegia, Hyalospongia, loggia, menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, monoplegia, Myalgia, nostalgia, Odontalgia, Otalgia, Pleuralgia, Podalgia, Prosopalgia, Rachialgia, Rhachialgia, Splenalgia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: geranial. | |
-2 letters: aligner, anergia, angular, engrail, granule, guarani, linguae, nargile, ranulae, realign, regalia, reginal, unagile. | |
-3 letters: aerial, aglare, agnail, alegar, aliner, angler, anlage, anural, anuria, argali, earing, gainer, galena, genial, glaire, gluier, guinea, iguana, laager, laguna, lagune, langue, langur, larine, laurae, ligure, linage, linear, linger, lingua, lunger, lunier, luring, nailer, narial, neural, nilgau, raglan, ranula, reagin, realia, regain, regina, regnal, reguli, renail, ruling, uglier, unreal, urania, urinal. | |
-4 letters: again, agile, agria, alane, alang, algae, algin, alien, align, aline, anear, angel, anger, angle, anile, areal, arena, argal, argil, argle, argue, ariel, auger, aurae, aural, aurei, elain, galea, garni, genua, glair, glare, glean, gluer, gnarl, graal, grail, grain, grana, gruel, guile, gular, ingle, inure, laari, lagan, lager, lanai, large, lauan, laura, learn, liana, liane, liang, ligan, liger, liner, linga, luger, lunar, lunge, lungi, naira, range, regal, regna, reign, renal, renig, ruana, rugae, rugal, ruing, ulnae, ulnar, unrig, uraei, ureal, urial, urine. | |
-5 letters: agar, ager, agin, ague, airn, alae, alan, alar, alga, anal, anga, anil, area, aria, aril, aura, earl, earn, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gala, gale, gane, gaun, gaur, gear, genu, gien, girl, girn, glen, glia, glue, gnar, gran, grin, grue, guan, guar, iglu, ilea, lain, lair, lane, lang, lari, lean, lear, liar, lien, lier, lieu, line, ling, lira, lire, luge, luna, lune, lung, lure, nail, near, nurl, raga, rage, ragi, raia, rail, rain, rale, rang, rani, real, rein, rial, riel, rile, ring, ruga, ruin, rule, rune, rung, ulan, ulna, unai, urea, urge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: inarguable, laureating, neuralgias. | |
+2 letters: equiangular, revaluating, triangulate. | |
+3 letters: adulterating, angularities, caterwauling, preinaugural, reevaluating, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating. | |
+4 letters: antiguerrilla, degranulation, granularities, gubernatorial, intergranular, perambulating, recalculating. | |
+5 letters: antiguerrillas, antiregulatory, degranulations, denaturalizing, rearticulating, recapitulating, rectangularity, regularization. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 75 72 61 6C 67 69 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- .-. .- .-.. --. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01100111 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u r a l g i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0072 0061 006C 0067 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487187846778737567 |
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