podagra

American

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

noun

Pathology.

gouty inflammation of the great toe.

podagra British

/ pəˈdæɡrə /

noun

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

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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

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

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Distortiones penis e podagra, lue, rheuraatismo, et gonorrhoea impotentem faciunt virum quandoque immedicabiliter.

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

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

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