Tic douloureux is facial pain traveling through the _____ nerve?: (A) Facial, (B) Hypoglossal, (C) Trigeminal, (D) Vestibulocochlear
Answer is C. Harrison's principles of internal medicine 17th edition. * Trigeminal neuralgia(Tic douloureux) is characterised by excruciating paroxysms of pain in lips , gums, cheek or chin and very rarely in distribution of ophthalmic division of 5th nerve.