Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Localized pain in the region of the heart.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, the heartburn; a burning sensation in the upper, left, or cardiac orifice of the stomach, rising into the esophagus, due to indigestion; gastralgia.
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- noun
cardialgy ;heartburn
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the commencement he was troubled with nausea and cardialgia; thirsty, tongue was parched; urine thin and dark.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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A strong heat about the stomach and cardialgia are bad symptoms in fevers.
Aphorisms 2007
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Immediately on the commencement had thirst, nausea, and cardialgia; tongue dry; bowels disordered, with thin and scanty dejections; had no sleep.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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Hegar considers that in women an injurious result follows the nonsatisfaction of the sexual impulse and of the "ideal feelings," and that symptoms thus arise (pallor, loss of flesh, cardialgia, malaise, sleeplessness, disturbances of menstruation) which are diagnosed as "chlorosis."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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The root yields a juice which is employed in skin diseases, in abscess, acid in cardialgia.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Its extract, in small doses, has been given in cardialgia, lepra, etc.
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The district doctor, who like all modern physicians -- especially those who wear a government uniform -- was fond of showing off with scientific terms, announced that her nephew's diagnosis showed all the symptoms of neurotic cardialgia, and there were febrile symptoms also.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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The district doctor, who, like all contemporary doctors, -- especially those of them who wear a uniform, -- was fond of showing off his learned terminology, informed her that her nephew had all the dioptric symptoms of nervous cardialgia, and that febris was present also.
A Reckless Character And Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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It is distinguished from apepsia and cardialgia by there being nothing ejected from the stomach by the retrograde motions of it, or of the oesophagus.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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They seem to spread downwards from the throat into the stomach, and probably through the whole intestinal canal, beginning their course with cardialgia, and terminating it with tenesmus; and might perhaps be called an erysipelas of this mucous membrane.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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