cardialgia
Americannoun
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obsolete pain in or near the heart
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a technical name for heartburn
Other Word Forms
- cardialgic adjective
Etymology
Origin of cardialgia
Example Sentences
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Dogs are afflicted with a disease of the stomach, which is very like to "water-brash," "pyrosis," or "cardialgia," in the human being.
From The Dog by Dinks
For in riding a journey in cold weather, when the feet are long kept too cold, the digestion is impaired, and cardialgia produced.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
When the aliment has had time to ferment, and become acid, it produces cardialgia, or heart-burn.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Heart′burn, a burning, acrid feeling, said to be due to the irritation of the upper end of the stomach by the fumes of its acrid contents: cardialgia: Heart′burning, discontent: secret enmity.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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)
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