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.
1610s, part of a city to which Jews were restricted, especially in Italy, from Italian ghetto part of a city to which Jews are restricted, various theories of its origin include: Yiddish get deed of separation; special use of Venetian getto foundry (there was one near the site of that city's ghetto in 1516); a clipped word from Egitto Egypt, from Latin Aegyptus (presumably in memory of the exile); or Italian borghetto small section of a town (diminutive of borgo, of Germanic ...