neuralgia

Sharp, severe paroxysmal pain extending along a nerve or group of nerves.

A pain, corresponding frequently to the distribution of some one nerve, which is not due immediately and simply to excessive stimulation of the nerve or nerves involved by some gross or extra-nervous lesion, but to a nutritive or other molecular change in the nerves themselves or their central connections.

See the adjectives.

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.

An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.

acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves