Myalgia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Muscular pain or tenderness. countable, uncountable

    "Southern physicians were prone to calling all fevers, malaises, myalgias, and headaches "malaria" and to treating them with quinine."

  2. 2
    pain in a muscle or group of muscles wordnet

Synonyms

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myodynia

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"Southern physicians were prone to calling all fevers, malaises, myalgias, and headaches "malaria" and to treating them with quinine."

Etymology

From my- (“muscle”) + -algia (“pain”).

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