causalgia
English
Etymology
From New Latin causalgia, from Ancient Greek καῦσος (kaûsos, “burning heat”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, caus- + -algia.
Noun
causalgia (countable and uncountable, plural causalgias)
- (medicine) A disorder with intense burning pain, type 2 of two types of complex regional pain syndrome.
- Hypernyms: CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome < syndrome, disease < condition
- Coordinate terms: RSD (initialism), reflex sympathetic dystrophy, RND, reflex neurovascular dystrophy, algodystrophy
Derived terms
- causalgic (adjective)
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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.