Angina Pectoris

Definition: Angina Pectoris

Angina Pectoris

Noun

1. A heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart.

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Health

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Angina Pectoris

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Physical Pain

Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis.

Crosswords: Angina Pectoris

Danish (angina pectoris), Dutch (angina pectoris), German (angina pectoris), Hungarian (angina, angina pectoris), Italian (angina pectoris), Latin (angina pectoris, Angina, Unstable, angor pectoris, Ludwig's Angina, pectoris).

Books

• Angina Pectoris (reference)

• Angina Pectoris (International Seminars in Cardiovascular Medicine Series) (reference)

• Drug Evaluation in Angina Pectoris (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 158) (reference)

• Electrostimulation of the carotid sinus nerve in angina pectoris (reference)

• Nitroglycerin VI: Instabile Angina Pectoris Und Extrakardiale Indikationen (reference)

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Health

There are two other forms of angina pectoris. (references)

ANGINA PECTORIS ("ANGINA") IS A recurring pain or discomfort in the chest that happens when some part of the heart does not receive enough blood. (references)

Physicians caution that sumatriptan should not be taken by people who have angina pectoris, basilar migraine, severe hypertension, or vascular, or liver disease. (references)

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Danish

angina pectoris (angina(pectoris), angor pectoris). (various references)

Dutch

angina pectoris (angina(pectoris), angor pectoris). (various references)

Esperanto

brustangoro. (various references)

Finnish

angina pectoris inversa (Prinzmetal's angina, variant angina pectoris), varianttiangina (Prinzmetal's angina, variant angina pectoris), Prinzmetalin angina (Prinzmetal's angina, variant angina pectoris), käänteisangina (Prinzmetal's angina, variant angina pectoris). (various references)

French

angine de poitrine (f) (angina), angine de poitrine (angina(pectoris), angor pectoris), Angina pectoris (angor pectoris). (various references)

German

Angina Pectoris (angina(pectoris), angor pectoris). (various references)

Greek 

στηθάγχη (angina(pectoris), breast pang, pulmonary angina pectoris). (various references)

Hungarian

angina pectoris (angina), szívtáji szorító (angina), szívgörcs (angina), fájdalom (ache, angina, distress, dolor, dolour, ease from pain, gip, gippo, gout, grief, pain, pang, soreness, suffering, throe, throes). (various references)

Italian

angina pectoris (angina(pectoris), angor pectoris). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

狭心症 (heart attack). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうし�"しょう (heart attack). (various references)

Pig Latin

anginaay ectorispay

Portuguese

angina de peito (angina(pectoris), breast pang). (various references)

Russian 

стенокардия, грудная жаба (angina, unstable angina). (various references)

Spanish

angina de pecho (angina(pectoris), angor pectoris, breast pang). (various references)

Turkish

göğüs anjini. (various references)

angina pectoris. (various references)

Misspellings

"Angina Pectoris" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: angiina pectoris. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ascertaining, caparisoning, interspacing, nonparasitic.

-3 letters: ancestoring, ceratopsian, interposing, paginations, pancreatins, patronising, personating, poignancies, resignation.

-4 letters: acierating, anticaries, aragonites, aragonitic, ascription, asperating, aspirating, aspiration, captaining, captioning, carnations, carnitines, carpetings, coarsening, conspiring, constringe, containers, crenations, crispening, epigastric, iatrogenic, ignorances, incarnates, inceptions, incognitas, incorpsing, increasing, inspecting, inspection, intragenic, isentropic, isoantigen, nicotianas, organicist, originates, pagination, pancreatin, parentings.

+4 letters: compartmentalising, microencapsulating.