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noun

angina n.

(Med.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. (Obs.)

(Med.) Any spasmodic severe suffocative pain.

(Med.) Angina pectoris.

Angina pectoris, Chest pain caused by myocardial ischemia precipitated by exertion and relieved by rest. It is so called because the pain is accompanied by a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

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"Angina" Quotes from Famous Books

... chance I bring my man through, I may just as well see to these things myself. At any moment I might need your help, and I am very happy, Miss Beverley, to think that I shall have some one like you to fall back upon. My great hope," he went on, "is that we may get him across without a touch of the angina." ...

— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... seventeenth year that I began to think of the future more nearly. My father had suffered long—though Mistress Pennyquick and I had known nothing of it, he being so reticent—from a disease which nowadays physicians call angina pectoris, a disease that grips a man by the chest, as 'twere his breastbones are ground together, with breathlessness and exquisite pain. As he grew older, the attacks recurred more frequently and with greater violence, and after one of them, the first I had ...

— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang

... girl, complained of a definite localized pain in her arm, and told me that she was suffering from angina pectoris. As we do not expect to find this disease in a young person, I asked her where she got such an idea. "Dr. —— told me so last May." "Did you feel the pain in this same place before that time?" I asked. ...

— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

Words linked to "Angina" : angina pectoris, inflammatory disease, Vincent's angina, Vincent's infection, croup, trench mouth, anginal, anginous, peritonsillar abscess, heart disease, cardiopathy, spasmodic laryngitis, quinsy