Crossword clues for angina
angina
- Heart problem that sounds deceptively risque
- Heart pain
- Painful heart problem
- Pain in the chest
- Severe sore throat
- Severe chest problem
- Severe chest pain
- Painful heart condition
- Painful attack
- Heart-felt message?
- Heart disease
- Condition marked by chest pains
- Cause of chest pains
- Attack of painful spasms
- Chest pain
- ___ pectoris
- A heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart
- Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain
- Throat ailment
- An alcoholic drink goes with a medical condition
- Chest complaint treated again with nitrates, primarily
- Articles about alcohol leading to chest pain
- A hidden message inviting government disorder
- Hearty complaint from gang in Arbroath
- Heart condition marked by chest pain
- Heart complaint
- After a liaison's end, woman's heartache
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angina \An*gi"na\, n. [L., fr. angere to strangle, to choke. See Anger, n.] (Med.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.
Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) An inflammatory infection of the throat, ''particularly'' quinsy. 2 (context pathology English) ''Short for'' '''angina pectoris'''. 3 (context pathology cardiology English) A chest pain or shortness of breath occurring with lesser degrees of arterial blockage.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
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, chest pain due to ischemia (a lack of blood and hence oxygen supply) of the heart muscle
- Abdominal angina, postprandial abdominal pain that occurs in individuals with insufficient blood flow to meet visceral demands
- Ludwig's angina, a serious, potentially life-threatening infection of the tissues of the floor of the mouth
- Prinzmetal's angina, a syndrome typically consisting of cardiac chest pain at rest that occurs in cycles
- Vincent's angina, trench mouth, infection of the gums leading to inflammation, bleeding, deep ulceration and necrotic gum tissue
- Angina tonsillaris, an inflammation of the tonsils
- Angina bullosa haemorrhagica, blood blisters in the mucous membranes of the mouth
- Herpangina, pharyngeal blisters caused by Coxsackie A virus or Echovirus
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.