Word: douloureux
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...patients were victims of an excruciating form of facial neuralgia known as tic douloureux, which often seems doubly painful because the victims know there is no sure relief. Drug after touted drug and a succession of surgical procedures have been tried, only to be found of limited value, or to be discarded entirely. But hope was rekindled when Columbia University's Dr. William Amols told the American Neurological Association that a new drug, carbamazepine-not yet generally available in the U.S.-has given relief to 75% of patients for as long as two years...
...basic cause of tic douloureux, or trigeminal neuralgia,* remains as little understood as the disease's power to set off stabbing, lightninglike pain, as severe as any known to man. It usually involves one side of the face, sometimes affects the forehead and eye region, but more often concentrates its attack on the cheek and jaw. In early stages, the stabs of pain last only a few seconds and may be hours apart. In more severe cases -and most victims get progressively worse-pains may recur several times a minute for hours or days, and leave a continuous "background...
...awkward kid to become a star Little League pitcher, as she was doing last week. She casts her spells not with a wave of a wand but with a twitch of her nose in a unique and peculiar manner that seems to be half allergy and half tic douloureux. Nowhere has the twitch worked better, apparently, than on the early reports of the ratings systems, for Bewitched is the surprising runaway champion of all the new TV shows...
...Heard a report on a way to relieve man's most atrocious pain by injecting hot water into a bundle of nerves behind the forehead. Victims of tic douloureux, an excruciating form of neuralgia, said Philadelphia's Neurosurgeon J. Rudolph Jaeger, are often too feeble for radical surgery, and lose their faith in doctors because most medical treatments give only short-lived relief. Under light general anesthesia, a needle is pushed through the cheek to the base of the skull, the surgeon following it by X ray. When it hits the Gasserian ganglion, he injects scalding water...
...douloureux, a form of facial neuralgia often rated the most painful of afflictions, has been relieved for as long as two years by a drug called stilbamidine, taken orally or by injection, reported two Maryland doctors. Previous treatments (cutting a facial nerve or deadening it with alcohol injections) left the patient with no sensation or "phantom" sensations on one side of his face...