podagra

American  

[poh-dag-ruh, pod-uh-gruh] / poʊˈdæg rə, ˈpɒd ə grə /

noun

Pathology.

1. gouty inflammation of the great toe.

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podagra British  

/ pəˈdæɡrə /

noun

1. gout of the foot or big toe

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Other Word Forms

• podagral adjective
• podagric adjective
• podagrous adjective

Etymology

Origin of podagra

1250–1300; Middle English < Latin < Greek podágra literally, foot-trap, equivalent to pod- pod- + ágra a catching, seizure

Example Sentences

Opening the sciatic vein relieved podagra and elephantiasis; menstrual problems were alleviated by cutting the saphenous vein.

From The New Yorker

Varro reckons up thirty thousand gods; Lucian makes Podagra, the gout, a goddess, and assigns her priests and ministers.

From Project Gutenberg

Podagra, pō-dag′ra, n. gout in the feet.—adjs.

From Project Gutenberg

Here's podagra, and jaundice, and a few fits.

From Project Gutenberg

To the Court-Chaplain's credit, it is reported that he took the invalid pug, who had the podagra in his hind-feet and the chiragra in his fore-paws, and shoved him quietly in his basket keeping-room and chamber under the stove again; restored the architectural order of the chairs without scolding; and rocked the little Bastian amidst the joyful confusion of tongues, that he might not wake up and aggravate it.

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