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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See trigeminal neuralgia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A severe form of facial neuralgia; prosopalgia. It is characterized by a sudden attack of very acute pain, attended with convulsive twitchings of the muscles of the face, and continuing from a few minutes to several hours. Often called simply tic.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Trigeminal neuralgia.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve

Etymologies

  1. French : tic, tic + douloureux, painful.

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  • chained_bear "The pretty book was called An Account of the Means by which Admiral Henry has Cured the Rheumatism, a Tendency to Gout, the Tic Douloureux, the Cramp, and other disorders; and by which a Cataract in the Eye was removed, and Stephen was looking at the pictures while Polly... played some variations on a theme by Pergolesi..."
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 26 Feb 27, 2008

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