cardialgia

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English

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, cardi- +‎ -algia.

Noun

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cardialgia (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) cardialgy; heartburn
    • 1679, Robert Hooke, Lectiones Cutlerianae, Or a Collection of Lectures, Londres: John Martyn, page 106:
      And although Sack had been formerly very familiar to him, he was now forced to shun it, and all strong Drinks, because they would infallibly produce a Cardialgia, a pulsant throbbing of the Heart, and labouring in his Breast: []

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Italian

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Etymology

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From cardio- +‎ -algia.

Noun

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cardialgia f (plural cardialgie)

  1. cardialgy, heartburn