angina
noun/ˈæn.d͡ʒɪ.nə/ · /ænˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/
Etymology From Latin angina (“quinsy; strangling, choking”), from angō (“to press together, to choke, to hurt (cause pain)”).
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Medicine, Sciences Broadly Any of various kinds of pain, especially pain that is suffocative, spasmodic, and/or acute and severe (fulminant).
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Medicine, Sciences Abbreviation, Broadly, Ellipsis Ellipsis of angina pectoris (“chest pain of cardiac origin”).
Usually strictly
- Derived terms
- anginal, anginalike, angina Ludovici, angina pectoris, angina rheumatica, angina tonsillaris, anginiform, anginoid, anginous, antiangina, antianginal, atenolol, herpes angina, Ludwig's angina, nonanginal, pectoral angina, Plaut-Vincent angina, postanginal, Prinzmetal's angina, Vincent's angina