angina pectoris

English

Etymology

From Latin angina pectoris (1700s), from angina (“choking, suffocation”) + pectoris (“of the chest”), genitive singular of pectus (“chest”).

Alternative forms

• (sometimes considered improper) angina

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈændʒɪnə ˈpɛktəˌɹɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ænˈdʒaɪnə ˈpɛktəˌɹɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

angina pectoris (uncountable)

1. (cardiology, pathology) Intermittent crushing chest pain caused by reversible myocardial ischemia.

Synonyms

• angina (short)
• pectoral angina (rare)
• stenocardia (rare)

Translations

intermittent chest pain

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: angina de pit f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心絞痛／心绞痛 (zh) (xīnjiǎotòng), 心绞痛 (zh) (xīnjiǎotòng), 狹心症／狭心症 (zh) (xiáxīnzhèng), 狭心症 (zh) (xiáxīnzhèng)

• Dutch: angina pectoris (nl)
• Esperanto: brustangoro, brustangino
• Finnish: rasitusrintakipu, angina pectoris (fi)
• French: angine de poitrine (fr) f
• German: Angina Pectoris f
• Irish: aingíne chléibh f
• Italian: angina pectoris f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 狭心症 (kyōshinshō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: آنژین صدری (ânžin-e sadri)
• Polish: dusznica bolesna (pl) f, dławica piersiowa f
• Portuguese: angina de peito f, angina do peito f
• Romanian: angină pectorală (ro) f
• Russian: стенокарди́я (ru) f (stenokardíja), (colloquial) грудна́я жа́ба (ru) (grudnája žába)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ангина пекторис f

  Roman: angina pektoris (sh) f

• Spanish: angina de pecho (es) f
• Tagalog: paninikip-dibdib

Further reading

• “angina pectoris”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.