Hitting a nerve: On nerves, brains, membranes, physics, thermodynamics, life and more ...
by Thomas Heimburg, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
A "neuralgic point" is something like a funny bone. If you hit it, you feel it. In some languages such as German, the term "hitting a neuralgic point" is used synonymously with "hitting a nerve" or "touching a delicate issue".
