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cardialgia

American  
[kahr-dee-al-jee-uh, -juh] / ˌkɑr diˈæl dʒi ə, -dʒə /

noun

Pathology.
  1. heartburn.

  2. cardiodynia.


cardialgia British  
/ -dʒə, ˌkɑːdɪˈældʒɪə /

noun

  1. obsolete pain in or near the heart

  2. a technical name for heartburn

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • cardialgic adjective

Etymology

Origin of cardialgia

First recorded in 1645–55; cardi- + -algia

Example Sentences

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The root yields a juice which is employed in skin diseases, in abscess, acid in cardialgia.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

As in cardialgia the pain is often felt in the pharinx, when the acid material stimulates the other end of the canal, which terminates in the stomach.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

There is also great heat in the throat and stomach and a desire to vomit and to have stool, and a great deal of weakness of the limbs and cardialgia.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

It is distinguished from apepsia and cardialgia by there being nothing ejected from the stomach by the retrograde motions of it, or of the œsophagus.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Rather less; distinct local uneasiness—less disposition to drowsiness; but decidedly more troubled with cardialgia, and eructations.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)