tic douloureux
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Definition
Noun: * Trigeminal neuralgia: A chronic pain condition affecting the trigeminal nerve, which carries sensation from the face to the brain. It is characterized by sudden, severe, electric shock-like or stabbing facial pain.
Usage
- Medical Diagnosis: The term is used primarily in medical contexts to diagnose or describe a specific neurological disorder.
- The patient was diagnosed with tic douloureux after describing episodes of excruciating facial pain.
- Describing Symptoms: It is used to specify the nature of the neuralgic pain.
- Her symptoms were consistent with tic douloureux, involving brief, intense spasms of pain on one side of her face.
Advanced Usage
- The term tic douloureux is of French origin, meaning "painful tic" or "painful spasm," which describes the sudden, twitch-like onset of the pain. In contemporary medical English, trigeminal neuralgia is the more commonly used clinical term.
Variants and Related Words
- Trigeminal Neuralgia (n): The modern, more frequent synonym for tic douloureux.
- Fothergill's Disease (n): An older, eponymous term for the same condition.
- Neuralgia (n): A broader term for nerve pain, of which tic douloureux is a specific type.
Synonyms
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Fothergill's disease
- Prosopalgia (a less common term for facial pain)
Related Phrases
- Facial neuralgia: A general phrase for nerve pain in the face, which can include tic douloureux.
- The doctor investigated the cause of her facial neuralgia.
Noun
- intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve