angina cruris

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Intermittent claudication.

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Vincent's angina is a chronic pseudomembranous and ulcerative inflammation of pharynx and tonsils.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In pseudo-angina, frequently observed in hysterical women, its action is all that can be desired.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
It was the first positive manifestation of the angina which eventually would take him from us.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
It is a curious malady—that angina; even the doctors are acquainted with its manifestations, rather than its cause.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine

Arnold died of a disease of the heart, which physicians have named by the expressive words "angina pectoris."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845|Various