Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Severe paroxysmal pain in the chest associated with an insufficient supply of blood to the heart.
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- noun cardiology, pathology
Intermittent crushing chest pain caused by reversiblemyocardial ischemia .
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- noun a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : Latin angina, quinsy + pectoris, genitive of pectus, chest.]
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Examples
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For two days and two nights it was more like angina pectoris, as I have heard it described; but this went off, and the complaint ran into its ancient pattern, thank God, and kept me only very ill, with violent cough all night long; my poor Robert, who nursed me like an angel, prevented from sleeping for full three weeks.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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