podagra
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of podagra
1250–1300; Middle English < Latin < Greek podágra literally, foot-trap, equivalent to pod- pod- + ágra a catching, seizure
Example Sentences
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Opening the sciatic vein relieved podagra and elephantiasis; menstrual problems were alleviated by cutting the saphenous vein.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
His podagra hath become a chiragra, as honest Martial hath it—the gout has got into his fingers, and he cannot draw his purse.
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
"But the gout takes him, you said--nodosa podagra, as my friend Ovid would say?"
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
The country was in peril only from disorders due to excess of prosperity, the podagra of the state.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
The Merry Monarch made Clarendon's bedroom his council-chamber when the Chancellor was confined to his couch by podagra.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
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