Neū-rāl'giă, n.

n. [Gr. νεῦρον, nerve, and ἄλγος, pain; Fr. névralgie.] (Med.) 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. Dunglison.