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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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)
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
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
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
Here am I stung and tortured with gastritis, hepatitis, splenitis, nephritis, epistaxis, odontalgia, cardialgia, diarhoea, and a whole legion of devils with Latin names!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various
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