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語源

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

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neuralgia (countable and uncountable, plural neuralgias)

1. (pathology, neurology) An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
2. (figurative) Acute emotional distress.
   • 2022 December 8, Philip Stephens, “Neuralgia clashes with exceptionalism in Northern Ireland”, in Financial Times‎, retrieved 16 February 2023:

     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.

   • 2022 December 26, Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, George Barros, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26”, in understandingwar.org‎, Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 27 December 2022:

     Ukrainian strikes on legitimate military targets far in the Russian rear continue to be points of neuralgia for the Russian milblogger community.

同意語

• neuralgy
• neurodynia

下位語

• sciatica

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Further reading

• “neuralgia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “neuralgia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “neuralgia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.