Definition: neuralgia

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

neuralgia
     n : acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
         [syn: neuralgy]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Neuralgia \Neu*ral"gi*a\, n. [NL., from gr. ? nerve + ? 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.