causalgia
English
Etymology
From New Latin causalgia, from Ancient Greek καῦσος (kaûsos, “burning heat”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, caus- + -algia.
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causalgia (countable and uncountable, plural causalgias)
- (medicine) A disorder with intense burning pain, one of two types of complex regional pain syndrome.
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Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “causalgia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “causalgia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.