Definition of Meralgia

1. Noun. Pain in the thigh.

Generic synonyms: Hurting, Pain

Medical Definition of Meralgia

1. Pain in the thigh; specifically, meralgia paresthetica. Origin: G. Meros, thigh, + algos, pain (21 Sep 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meralgia

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mepyramine maleate
mepyrapone
mequitazine
mer-
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meralgia (current term)
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Literary usage of Meralgia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1916)
"The condition may be transient persistent in character, the duration being largely dependent upon î underlying cause. meralgia ..."

2. The Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System: A Manual for Practitioners by Joseph Collins (1900)
"It is sometimes called meralgia paraesthetica, a name given to it by Both of Moscow, ... The attributed causes of meralgia paraesthetica are direct injury, ..."

3. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"meralgia PARESTHETICA. Under this title White2 called special attention to this particular variety of paresthesia, which had been frequently recognized by ..."

4. Diseases of the skin: Inluding the Acute Eruptive Fevers by Frank Crozer Knowles (1914)
"meralgia Paresthetica.—This rare affection is characterized by tingling, formication, heat, cold, and occasionally numbness, tension, constriction, ..."

5. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1913)
"Symptomatic "meralgia Paraesthetica." The very characteristic symptom complex of neuritis of the external cutaneous nerve of the thigh, which ordinarily ..."

6. Handbook of Electricity in Medicine by Hyacinthe Guilleminot (1906)
"... meralgia.—This is an affection of the anterior-crural nerve. The patient complains of numbness and formication of the front and outside of the thigh. ..."

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