0 involving short, severe pains felt suddenly along a nerve, especially in the neck or head: --
Their populations have become increasingly neuralgic about immigration.
Political allegiance is a neuralgic subject in this community.
She takes painkillers for the terrible neuralgic pains in her face.
Empires, in this theoretical concept, depend on this relative absence of relationships in the periphery, the core's power partly dependent on its role as a neuralgic center.
Pain modifier drugs for neuralgic pain (such as amitriptyline, carbamazepine or gabapentin) may be tried, but are often not as helpful in the majority of patients.
It can be associated with trisomy 18, as well as hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy.
Tricyclics are also known as effective analgesics for different types of pain, especially neuropathic or neuralgic pain.
We live in a dangerous world in which there are points, neuralgic points if you like, which can spring to life at any time.
What tipped the scales the wrong way was the prospect of separate negotiations on one politically neuralgic commodity; cotton.
Other common side effects included dryness of face and hands, gustatory sweating, and neuralgic pain.
We seem to be neuralgic about the issue of Europe in this country.