0 involving short, severe pains felt suddenly along a nerve, especially in the neck or head:
She takes painkillers for the terrible neuralgic pains in her face.
Political allegiance is a neuralgic subject in this community.
Their populations have become increasingly neuralgic about immigration.
For foreign readers the novel's historical backdrop has little of the neuralgic resonance it has for Greeks.
We seem to be neuralgic about the issue of Europe in this country.
Other common side effects included dryness of face and hands, gustatory sweating, and neuralgic pain.
What tipped the scales the wrong way was the prospect of separate negotiations on one politically neuralgic commodity; cotton.
We live in a dangerous world in which there are points, neuralgic points if you like, which can spring to life at any time.
