enteralgia

[en-tuh-ral-juh, -jee-uh]

noun

Pathology.

1. pain in the intestine; colic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enteralgia¹

From New Latin; enter-, -algia

Example Sentences

That there may be such a thing as enteralgia, of really neuralgic character, I do not deny; on the contrary, so far as regards the rectum, I have myself seen such a case.

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Thirdly, when rheumatic inflammation affects the bowels, it produces a disease very different from enteritis, or common inflammation of the bowels, and should be termed enteralgia rheumatica.

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It then abruptly left him, to make way, apparently metastatically, for enteralgia coupled with diarrhœa.

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