神经痛

神經痛
shénjīngtòng
noun #31,270

Meanings

  1. 1 neuralgia
  2. 2 nerve pain

Examples

Tā huàn yǒu sānchā shénjīngtòng.
He suffers from trigeminal neuralgia.
Tiānqì biànhuà shí tā de shénjīngtòng jiù fāzuò.
Her neuralgia flares up when the weather changes.

Tips

memory
Word-for-word transparent: 神经 ('nerve') + ('pain'). 神经 itself is built from ('spirit') + ('channel') — Chinese medicine's pre-modern term for the body's signal-carrying channels — repurposed as the calque for Western 'nerve'. So 神经痛 = 'spirit-channel pain'.

Stroke Order

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