Neu*ral"gi*a (?), n. [NL., from Gr. ?
nerve + ? pain. See nerve.] (Med.) A disease,
the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or
intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends
to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve.
It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
Dunglison.