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acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

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.

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.

Intense or aching pain that occurs along the course or distribution of a peripheral or cranial nerve.

Acute pain along the course of a nerve.

Pain in nerves.

A painful nervous affection.

Neuralgic.

Neuralgic.

Acute pain from irritation of a nerve.

A generic name for a certain number of diseases, 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. The principal neuralgiae have been distinguished by the names facial (of which the infra-orbitar, maxillary, and frontal are but divisions)-the ilia-scratal, femaro-paplieal, femara-pretibial, plantar, and cubito-digital. A division of anamalaus neuralgiae has likewise been admitted. All varietics of neuralgia are obstinate, and the greatest diversity of means has been made use of :-bleeding, general and local,-emetics, purgatives, rubefacients, vesicants, actual cautery, narcotics, mercurial frictions, electricity; destruction of a portion of the nerve, &c. This plan of treatment, continued for a month or two, will often relieve, and ultimately remove this much dreaded affection. The mode in which it acts is by no means clear; but it is almost as certain as any other remedy used in disease in producing its salutary effects. The bowels must be kept free; and all inflammatory symptoms removed during its administration.

Pain in a nerve.

A nervous disorder, characterized solely by pain due to a disease of a definite sensory nerve. The pain is in the course of a nerve or its branches, is of considerable intensity, and, as a rule, paroxysmal, [Gr.]

n. [German] An acute pain which follows the course of a nervous branch.