myalgia

noun

myalgia

noun

Etymology From my- (“muscle”) + -algia (“pain”).

1

Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Muscular pain or tenderness.

Southern physicians were prone to calling all fevers, malaises, myalgias, and headaches "malaria" and to treating them with quinine.2001, Margaret Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States:

Derived terms: arthromyalgia, fibromyalgia, myalgic, polymyalgia

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