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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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
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)
Soap neutralizes the gastric acid without effervescence, and thus relieves the pain of cardialgia, where the stomach is affected.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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
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
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