Pain Conditions

noun a condition characterized by severe pain along the course of a nerve or group of nerves

• Neuralgia is a medical condition characterized by intense, shooting pain along a nerve.
• I've been dealing with neuralgia in my back for weeks now.
• That neuralgia pain is no joke, it feels like my nerve is on fire.
• Her emotional pain was like a neuralgia, shooting through her heart with every memory.

noun a type of migraine headache that occurs without the presence of head pain

adjective describing the type of migraine as being without head pain

• The patient was diagnosed with acephalgic migraine, a type of migraine without a headache.
• I have an acephalgic migraine today, so I'm experiencing all the symptoms except the headache.
• My head feels weird, like I might be getting one of those acephalgic migraines.
• Dealing with that project was like navigating through an acephalgic migraine - all the symptoms without the main issue.