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neuralgic, a. Path.|njʊˈrældʒɪk| [f. prec. + -ic. Cf. F. névralgique (1801).] Of the nature of, characterized or caused by, affected with, neuralgia.
1834Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 167/2 The absence of heat, swelling, redness..make it merit the epithet neuralgic. 1861Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 142 Neuralgic pains in the face have troubled me a good deal. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 42 In simple neuralgic gastric pain..bismuth is often of great service.
Add: Hence neuˈralgically adv., in a neuralgic manner; (fig.) painfully.
1898G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Apr. (1972) II. 26 Fatigue of two days continuous talking & one day's riding struggling hysterically & somewhat neuralgically with effect of change of air. 1973S. Heath in Screen Spring/Summer 123 It is today that the reality of this break between film and text is beginning..to be felt as radical experience of cinema; whether naively,..neuralgically, without any real basis in a conscious theoretical practice. 1977Radio Times 11 June 12/4 The Communist leaders in Prague are neuralgically sensitive about the dissidents' activities. |