podagra
Americannoun
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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
Gout 'tis called in vulgar parlance, But if any learn�d person Rather podagra should call it, I shall offer no objection; Not the less will be its torments.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
This is the prince of leeches; fever, plague, Cold rheum, and hot podagra, do but look on him, And quit their grasp upon the tortured sinews.
From The Talisman by Scott, Walter, Sir
Unnoticeably to themselves and altogether unnoticeably, of course, to the casual glance, they cautiously right themselves; or, more correctly, fade until they grow a belly unto themselves, and acquire podagra and diseases of the liver.
From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
"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 Strang, Herbert
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