Neuralgia

a pain due, not to some injury to a part of the body, but to something wrong with the nerve itself. Neuralgia may affect an eye, one side of the face, an arm, or any other part of the body occupied by the branches of a particular nerve. Neuralgic pains are acute--described by such terms as shooting, stabbing, boring, burning, and jumping. These pains may be caused by cold, overwork, lack of sleep, worry, want of food, alcohol, fright, etc.