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Initialism vs Neuralgia - What's the difference?

initialism | neuralgia |

As nouns the difference between initialism and neuralgia

is that initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter while neuralgia is (pathology|neurology) an acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.

initialism

English

Noun

(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)
  • A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
  • BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

    See also

    * abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *

    neuralgia

    Noun

  • (pathology, neurology) An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
  • Synonyms

    * neuralgy * neurodynia

    Hyponyms

    * sciatica

    Derived terms

    * neuralgic

    See also

    * neuritis