Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See trigeminal neuralgia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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
- n. Trigeminal neuralgia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.
WordNet 3.0
- n. intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve
Etymologies
- 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