trigeminal neuralgia — n an intense paroxysmal neuralgia involving one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve called also tic douloureux * * * (tic douloureux) see neuralgia * * * severe, episodic pain in the area supplied by the trigeminal nerve, often precipitated… … Medical dictionary
trigeminal neuralgia — n. a disorder of unknown cause, characterized by severely painful paroxysms along one or more branches of a trigeminal nerve … English World dictionary
Trigeminal neuralgia — Infobox Disease Name = Trigeminal neuralgia Caption = Detailed view of trigeminal nerve, shown in yellow. DiseasesDB = 13363 ICD10 = ICD10|G|50|0|g|50 ICD9 = ICD9|350.1 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = emerg eMedicineTopic = 617 MeshID … Wikipedia
trigeminal neuralgia — noun intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve • Syn: ↑tic douloureux • Hypernyms: ↑neuralgia, ↑neuralgy … Useful english dictionary
trigeminal neuralgia — noun Date: 1874 an intense paroxysmal neuralgia involving one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve … New Collegiate Dictionary
trigeminal neuralgia — noun Medicine neuralgia involving one or more of the branches of the trigeminal nerves … English new terms dictionary
trigeminal neuralgia — noun A neuropathic disorder of one or both of trigeminal nerves leading to intense pain in parts of the face. Syn: tic douloureux, prosopalgia … Wiktionary
trigeminal neuralgia — tic douloureux; see neuralgia … The new mediacal dictionary
trigeminal neuralgia — Pathol. See tic douloureux. [1870 75] * * * … Universalium
trigeminal neuralgia — trigem′inal neural′gia n. pat tic douloureux • Etymology: 1870–75 … From formal English to slang