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Angina

noun

Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.

A heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart. Synonym: angina pectoris.

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"Angina" Quotes from Famous Books

... suddenly at the age of fifty-three from angina pectoris; and he himself was haunted by forebodings of an early death. To be snatched away without a warning, to come in a moment from the seductions of this World to the presence of Eternity— his most ordinary actions, the most casual remarks, served to keep him in ...

— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey

... Venice. Very shortly after that he had an illness which seems to have at one time threatened a fatal termination. 'Using to drink my wine cool'd with snow and ice, as the manner here is, I was so afflicted with the angina and soare-throat, that it had almost cost me my life. After all the remedies Cavalier Veslingius, cheife professor here, could apply, old Salvatico (that famous physician) being call'd made me be cupp'd and scarified in the back in foure places, which began ...

— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn

... his anxiety was speedily removed, for within two hours he was seized with a violent attack of angina pectoris, ...

— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

Words linked to "Angina" : inflammatory disease, peritonsillar abscess, Vincent's infection, croup, heart disease, cardiopathy, spasmodic laryngitis, quinsy, trench mouth, anginous