trigeminal neuralgia

1. 1.

   intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve

   Synonymstic douloureux

   Broaderneuralgia

Questions about trigeminal neuralgia

What does trigeminal neuralgia mean?

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

What is another word for trigeminal neuralgia?

Close synonyms include tic douloureux. 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 trigeminal neuralgia a common word?

trigeminal neuralgia 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.