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• 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.

• neuralgy

News & Articles

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• S.A. seniors: Social Security might not be enough to live on
  Many people work their entire lives and expect to be able to take it easy, with the help of Social Security, once they retire. Josie Saucedo added, My plan was to retire when I was at the right age, but I cut my toe off by early retirement, due to my trigeminal neuralgia. A survey by CENA program coordinators at La Fe Policy Research and Education Center showed that one in four Latinos over the ...
  June 30, 2013 - The Southside Reporter
• Gamma Knife fights cancer with state-of-the-art tool
  SPOKANE, Wash. – Local business Gamma Knife offers the most accurate tool in the world for skull-based tumors. Gamma Knife of Spokane has been treating cancer patients by performing stereo-tactic radio surgery for eleven years.   Gamma Knife uses the most precise technology to perform non-invasive brain surgery for tumors, tremors and trigeminal neuralgia.  It can deliver a precise beam of ...
  June 27, 2013 - KREM.com Spokane

Quotes

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• Walter Bagehot in Wall Street Journal
  A panic......is a species of neuralgia, and according to the rules of science you must not starve it,Bagehot wrote.
• Pope Benedict XVI in Catholic Online
  Given India's longstanding neuralgia with regard to the CTBT (exceeded only by its even deeper antipathy to the NPT), a US president who moved back toward the CTBT would have a delicate and difficult time with his Indian counterpart on the terms of... Strobe Talbott http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strobe_Talbott&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFaEwg0Sbko2F6PsCcSZCHu7A_rRg Newindpress http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp%3FID%3DIEH20080707233312%26Page%3DH%26Title%3DTop%2BStories%26Topic%3D0&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHW4f17rZhBM5UwJ49IxCmD48uklg Jul 7, 2008 67252 89581 neuralgic In the letter Benedict XVI wrote: It could prove extremely useful that the General Congregation reaffirm, in the spirit of St. Ignatius, its own total adhesion to Catholic doctrine, in particular on those neuralgic points which today are strongly...