Definition of "trigeminus" []

• See trigeminal nerve. (noun)

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• "Rheumatic neuralgia in other nerves, as in the trigeminus, so often found in anemic women, is often relieved by massage in a few treatments."
• "The more important men were Lorenz Gasser (professor 1757-65; trigeminus), Joseph Barth"
• "Communications are also on record of local decolorization of the eyebrows and lashes in neuralgias of isolated branches of the trigeminus, especially of the supraorbital nerve."