cardialgia
Americannoun
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obsolete pain in or near the heart
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a technical name for heartburn
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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
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
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
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
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
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