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Neuralgia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves wordnet
  3. 3
    Acute emotional distress. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "A century later, the UK’s post-Brexit dispute with Brussels about Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements with the EU has stirred the same neuralgia."

Etymology

From New Latin neuralgia, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, neur- + -algia.

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