tic douloureux

1. 1.

   intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve

   Synonymstrigeminal neuralgia

   Broaderneuralgia

Questions about tic douloureux

What does tic douloureux mean?

tic douloureux means "intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve".

What is another word for tic douloureux?

Close synonyms include trigeminal neuralgia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tic douloureux a common word?

tic douloureux is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.