gastralgia

[ ga-stral-jee-uh, -juh ]

noun

1. neuralgia of the stomach.
2. any stomach pain.

gastralgia

/ ɡæsˈtrældʒɪə /

noun

1. pain in the stomach

Derived Forms

• gasˈtralgic, adjective

Other Words From

• gas·tralgic adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gastralgia¹

From New Latin, dating back to 1815–25; gastr-, -algia

Example Sentences

Gastralgia, gas-tral′ji-a, n. pain in the stomach or bowels.

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Best clothes and common clothes, thick clothes and thin clothes, flannels and linens, socks and collars, with handkerchiefs enough to keep the pickpockets busy for a week, with a paper of gingerbread and some lozenges for gastralgia, and 'hot drops,' and ruled paper to write letters on, and a little Bible and a phial with hiera piera, and another with paregoric, and another with 'camphire' for sprains and bruises.

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The patient who to-day complains of the most severe gastralgia, or liver-pain, will to-morrow place all his sufferings in the cardiac region, or in the rectum, or will complain of a deep fixed pain within his head; and these changes are often most rapid and frequent.

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Women are, by the general consent of authors, more liable to gastralgia than men.

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While the great majority of dyspeptic pains are increased by filling the stomach, gastralgia, on the contrary, is invariably relieved by food, often most strikingly and completely.

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