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Angina

//ˈæn.d͡ʒɪ.nə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various kinds of pain, especially pain that is suffocative, spasmodic, and/or acute and severe (fulminant). broadly, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various kinds of pain, especially pain that is suffocative, spasmodic, and/or acute and severe (fulminant).; Ellipsis of angina pectoris (“chest pain of cardiac origin”). abbreviation, alt-of, broadly, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  4. 4
    any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain wordnet
  5. 5
    An inflammatory infection of the throat, especially quinsy; any sore throat, with or without tooth and gum involvement. countable, dated, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin angina (“quinsy; strangling, choking”), from angō (“to press together, to choke, to hurt (cause pain)”).

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