noun (n)

• acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves(noun.state)

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  neuralgy
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913