(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
(2) Acyclovir was shown to limit herpes simplex reactivation in a controlled trial to prevent herpes labialis after surgical intervention for trigeminal neuralgia.
(3) Because of the inherent limitations of computed tomography in the visualization of posterior fossa structures, MR imaging should be considered the initial screening procedure in the assessment of patients with trigeminal neuralgia.
(4) Evaluation of data leads to the following conclusions: In case of neuralgia in the V1 and V2 divisions, corneal sensitivity may decrease without any clinical manifestation.
(5) In four of five patients with other forms of neuralgia, the procedure did not relieve pain; the fifth patient experienced significant relief from pain due to carcinoma of the mandible.
(6) The authors describe the neurosurgical techniques currently available for the treatment of essential trigeminal neuralgia refractory to the usual medical treatments.
(7) The risk of developing post-herpetic neuralgia is related to the degree of residual scarring.
(8) However, when the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve is affected, the ocular disease (ophthalmic zoster), although also usually mild and self-limited, may have severe complications (corneal scarring, glaucoma, iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, scleritis, motor disturbances, optic neuritis, retinitis, anterior segment necrosis, and phthisis bulbi and servere postherpetic neuralgia).
(9) 140 patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia are evaluated.
(10) The authors deal with the psychological and psychopathological implications connected with cervicobrachial neuralgia and low-back pain.
(11) This report evaluates the effect of meridian acupuncture treatment on trigeminal neuralgia.
(12) A patient with trigeminal neuralgia caused by a tortuous vertebrobasilar artery is reported.
(13) Trigeminal neuralgia is most commonly idiopathic, although it can be associated with multiple sclerosis.
(14) Percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizolysis was ineffective in relieving atypical trigeminal neuralgia or atypical facial pain.
(15) Trigeminal neuralgia is best treated by microvascular decompression.
(16) The treatment of trigeminal neuralgia by the minor percutaneous invasive procedures of selective thermal rhizotomy, glycerol injection, and balloon compression in the middle cranial fossa are compared with the open operations of compression in the middle fossa and MVD in the posterior fossa.
(17) The treatment effect of myeglynol may be related to its capacity to decrease to normal the high concentration of formaldehyde in the blood serum of patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia.
(18) Two of 29 were postherpetic and 27 were idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.
(19) Pain is more often lateralised on the left, except in the case of trigeminal neuralgia.
(20) Headache and trigeminal neuralgia also disappeared.
Tonga
Definition:
(n.) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other officials sanctioned were Ismael Bhamjee of Botswana, who was handed a four-year ban, Amadou Diakite of Mali and Ahongalu Fusimalohi of Tonga who were suspended for three years and Tunisian official Slim Aloulou for two.
(2) The incidence of red cell A, B, and D antigens in 7903 people from the Kingdom of Tonga is reported.
(3) PNG has a gender inequality index of 0.617 and Tonga 0.462, in contrast to the most gender equal nation, Norway, at 0.065 .
(4) Sixteen countries in five WHO Regions participated: Mali, Zambia and Zimbabwe (in Africa); Bolivia, El Salvador and Jamaica (in the Americas); Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan (in the Eastern Mediterranean); India, Sri Lanka and Thailand (in South-East Asia); and China, the Philippines and Tonga (in the Western Pacific).
(5) Liver cancer occurs in Fiji and Tonga, with the occurrence in Fijians being significantly higher than in the Indian population.
(6) "Our first game is against Tonga and they're packed with NRL experience, and even the Italians look a pretty good side to me."
(7) We will fundraise, and there is something rather charming that you can say to somebody: 'If you give us £50,000, I can more or less guarantee that you will have decriminalised homosexuality in Tonga.'
(8) Seven and eight year old primary school children were interviewed to rapidly assess food consumption patterns during a drought in Tonga.
(9) Tonga Djobo, 75, steadied himself with a stick he used to prod cattle and used as a cane.
(10) An outbreak of dengue type 2 infection occurred in the Pacific island Kingdom of Tonga in 1974 and an outbreak of dengue type 1 occurred there in 1975.
(11) They were widely expected to suffer two heavy defeats having been drawn against the imposing Pacific pair of Tonga and Samoa, especially after a couple of hiccups in the build-up.
(12) And Tonga, which has suffered a drought for nearly a year, has been forced to ship water supplies to the country’s outer islands.
(13) Mseleni Joint Disease (MJD), a polyarticular osteoarthritis of uncertain etiology is endemic among the Tonga-Zulu tribe.
(14) A post-cyclone assessment of the health and nutritional status of preschool children at Ha'apai, Tonga Is, showed lower disease incidence and an unchanged pattern of illness.
(15) Tonga eye syndromes, aetiological concepts, and eye drops are presented.
(16) An autogenous species belonging to the Aedes (Stegomyia) scutellaris subgroup was found on the island of Tafahi, Kingdom of Tonga.
(17) Vanuatu was the country most at risk in the world from natural disasters, ahead of Tonga, the Philippines, Japan and Costa Rica, the document said.
(18) Niue, situated east of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean, has appeared on tax haven lists before.
(19) They have been drawn in a tough group with Tonga and Italy, but also play the United States under the complicated tournament structure , and have been boosted by the availability of Brough's Huddersfield team-mates Dale Ferguson and Joe Wardle, as well as Ben Kavanagh from Widnes and Kane Linnett from the North Queensland Cowboys.
(20) Last year, Samoa passed legislation against sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, while similar draft legislation is being developed in Kiribati , Vanuatu and Tonga.