Word: neuralgia
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...pain recurs. Other neurosurgical procedures involve cutting the roots of nerves at the spine to relieve cancer pain in the lower end of the backbone, and cutting or chemically killing the trigeminal nerve in the face to halt the agonizing stabs of tic douloureux, the most agonizing form of neuralgia...
...charges true? The answer, in view of the dearth of scientific research, cannot yet be conclusive. But there is significant evidence in the history of marijuana during the hundred-odd years before 1967, when it was commonly prescribed for sedation, senile insomnia, menstrual disorders, epilepsy, severe neuralgia and migraine...
...Pound and T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and James Stephens. Probably no writer was ever more single-minded than Joyce or more convinced of his own genius, even before he published a line. Yet his life was a continuous obstacle course. His eyes failed him, he had facial neuralgia, arthritis of the back, sciatica. "My mouth is full of decayed teeth," he wrote, "and my soul of decayed ambitions." He was to die in 1941 from the hemorrhaging of a duodenal ulcer-his stomach pains had been diagnosed in Paris as due to nerves...
...troubles that have been traced to impacted wisdom teeth is virtually endless. At one time or another, New York University's Dr. Irving Salman told the Greater New York Dental Meeting last week, they have been accused of causing everything from facial deformity to infections, from cysts to neuralgia, nervous disorders, muscular twitching, melancholia, arthritis, impairment of vision-and even schizophrenia...
Master Nagger. Although he married at 39, and lived with his wife for 15 years, Bennett was neither a happy husband nor a good one. Compulsively punctual, always suffering torments from a variety of ailments from neuralgia to colic, he begrudged every moment spent away from his work. He was a master nagger; once, when his wife moved the piano in the living room by a few inches, he wrote her a four-page letter of reprimand...