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Definition of Trigeminal neuralgia
1. Noun. Intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve.
Definition of Trigeminal neuralgia
1. Noun. A neuropathic disorder of one or both of trigeminal nerves leading to intense pain in parts of the face. ¹
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Medical Definition of Trigeminal neuralgia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trigeminal Neuralgia
Literary usage of Trigeminal neuralgia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Electro-therapeutics by Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1883)
"LECTURE XXVI. Individual Forms of Neuralgia: 1. trigeminal neuralgia; Practical
Remarks Concerning the Individual Methods of Treatment—2. ..."
2. Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases: A Text-book of Neurology by Moses Allen Starr (1913)
"Women are more subject to trigeminal neuralgia than men. ... Slight attacks of
trigeminal neuralgia may occur in the course of any slight illness, ..."
3. Spondylotherapy: Physio and Pharmaco-therapy and Diagnostic Methods Based on by Albert Abrams (1918)
"Dr. GO Jarvis (Ashland, Oregon), referring to the treatment of this affection
alludes to the fact that if there is a central factor in trigeminal neuralgia ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"trigeminal neuralgia is of comparatively frequent occurrence in the routine ...
The diagnosis of trigeminal neuralgia rests mainly upon the following points ..."
5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1874)
"CASE OF trigeminal neuralgia TREATED WITH THE CONSTANT CURRENT. By SAMUEL CRADDOCK,
Esq., Shepton Mallet. [The patient was 64 years of age, and was seized ..."
6. Pain: Its Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance by Richard Joseph Behan (1920)
"Blair gives the following as characteristics of trigeminal neuralgia: (a) The
pain is generally sudden in one branch of the fifth nerve; ..."