Medical Definition of Occipital neuralgia
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A clinical complex of pain, tenderness, tight neck musculature, vasomotor instability, and ill-defined symptoms such as dizziness and blurred vision as the result of trauma to the neck. Also variously termed occipital or suboccipital neuralgia or neuritis; cervical tension syndrome; cervical myospasm, myositis, or fibrositis.
Synonym: cervical fibrositis, cervical tension syndrome.
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occipital Neuralgia
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