Healthgrades Editorial Staff. Occipital neuralgia is a disorder in which a problem with the occipital nerve in the back of the skull causes pain between the back of the head and the scalp, as well as pain, tingling, numbness, weakness, and possible damage to the nerves and muscles in the back of the neck.
This was originally an Italian word for small areas in Italian towns, where Jews were compelled to live exclusively. The first ghetto was set up by Pope Paul IV, in Rome, in 1555.
A ghetto was used to describe areas in Greece that were walled off to keep in undesirables (so mostly Jews). The fact that there is a connotation with the word in US English vernacular does not make it racist. Edit: Italy, not Greece.