neuralgia
- n acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
- As exquisitely painful as the prolonged probing of a dentist's drill on a bare nerve is Tic Douloureux, or facial neuralgia, a disease which attacks the nerve tract of cheeks .
- Getting vaccinated also means avoiding the risk of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), which people with shingles sometimes develop, causing debilitating pain for months or even years.
- Facial Neuralgia ranks close to angina pectoris as a racking pain.