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angina
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Angina is a medical term derived from the classical Greek word ánkhō ( ἄγχω ) meaning to strangle, throttle, or choke. It may refer to a constriction in the airway or, by extension, a restriction in blood flow. It may refer specifically to: Angina pectoris ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Latin angina "infection of the throat," from Greek ankhone "a strangling" (see anger ); probably influenced in Latin by angere "to throttle." Angina pectoris is from 1744, from Latin pectoris , genitive of pectus "chest" (see pectoral (adj.)). ...
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n. any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart [syn: angina pectoris ]
Usage examples of angina.
Now, Ferguson, to put your charges against Rochester in concrete form, you believe that he was insanely jealous of Jimmie Turnbull, that he recognized him in the Police Court in his burglar disguise, slipped a dose of aconitine in a glass of water which Turnbull drank, and after declaring that his friend had died from angina pectoris, disappeared.
He slowed his lungs, taking deep, measured breaths, hoping his heart would follow suit, and cursing himself for being so careless as to have left behind his backup nitros, the fast-acting sublingual tablets for when his angina broke through the extended-release pills.
Angina pectoris could be the precursor to a full blown myocardial infarction.
Barnum picked up the testimony of Miss Halliday, and described how she had gone to Room 310, given Miss Starbuck amyl nitrate inhalations, to check an attack of angina pectoris, and had, finally, in despair, sent for Dr.
She was under careful observation because of several attacks of angina pectoris she had had in the past few months.
Miss Starbuck had actually died of arsenic poisoning, not of angina pectoris, were you surprised?
Starbuck had telephoned him at about the same time, requesting that, as a special favor, a death certificate be issued at once to cover the sudden death, from angina pectoris, of Dr.
Greenfield dog pound was afflicted with angina pectoris, which, as you gentlemen of the jury will recall, was the heart disease from which, according to the hospital records, Miss Hannah Starbuck died.
Your last answer covered the subject of sick dogs, one of which suffered from angina pectoris.
Hazeltine asked me if I would accept twenty-five dollars for this angina pectoris dog dead.
Apart from the usual faithful companions of old age, Arthritis, Angina, Thrombosis, Prostate Cancer, there now appeared illnesses such as Poliakoff's Syndrome where the sufferer's body fat became so tired and worn out that it caught fire and burned from within like a fire-bombed council house, there was Clutterbuck's Disease in which the excessively old person's bones calcified to such a degree that they more or less turned into a pillar of salt, and the memory loss that occurred in those of seventy, eighty, ninety, was replaced by memory gain in those of one hundred and thirty, forty, fifty.
In addition to the pleasures of a diseased prostate, he had now developed angina pectoris, a new and boisterous ailment which could be counted on to stab him in the middle of a speech, leaving him breathless and faint.
It is given for some forms of heart trouble - angina pectoris for instance.
If angina pectoris (chest pain associated with coronary heart disease) is the problem, you could easily combine the directions for relieving pain with the ones intended to thwart heart attacks.
Also, the pain of angina pec-toris, which originates through a reduction in the blood flow to the heart muscle, is generally felt in the left shoulder and arm.