cardialgia
Americannoun
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obsolete pain in or near the heart
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a technical name for heartburn
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Dogs are afflicted with a disease of the stomach, which is very like to "water-brash," "pyrosis," or "cardialgia," in the human being.
From The Dog by Dinks
It is distinguished from apepsia and cardialgia by there being nothing ejected from the stomach by the retrograde motions of it, or of the œsophagus.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Heart′burn, a burning, acrid feeling, said to be due to the irritation of the upper end of the stomach by the fumes of its acrid contents: cardialgia: Heart′burning, discontent: secret enmity.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
There is also great heat in the throat and stomach and a desire to vomit and to have stool, and a great deal of weakness of the limbs and cardialgia.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
As in cardialgia the pain is often felt in the pharinx, when the acid material stimulates the other end of the canal, which terminates in the stomach.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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