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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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
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
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
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
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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