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neuralgia
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Definition: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.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Humbert’s face might twitch with neuralgia
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Of new-fangled diseases she had a perfect horror, speaking of them more in anger than in sorrow, as of things which never should have been introduced. Even the New Ralgy she declined to entertain, dismissing the mention of it, contemptuously, in the formula, “New Ralgy or Ould Ralgy, I’ll have nothing to do with it.”
Humours of Irish Life: John Stevenson. The Wise Woman
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He said he had last night been elected a member of an Amateur Dramatic Club, called the “Holloway Comedians”; and, though it was a pleasant evening, he had sat in a draught, and got neuralgia in the head.
George and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody (1882)
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