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Definition of Angina pectoris

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

Definition of Angina pectoris

1. Noun. (cardiology disease) Intermittent crushing chest pain caused by reversible myocardial ischemia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Angina pectoris

1. A paroxysmal thoracic pain, with a failing of suffocation and impending death, due, most often, to anoxia of the myocardium and precipitated by effort or excitement. (18 Nov 1997)

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Literary usage of Angina pectoris

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"The alleged cases of true angina pectoris without organic disease' of the ... Parry wrote: " I think It evidently appears that the angina pectoris is a mere ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(e) Coronary Sclerosis (angina pectoris) Seneca wrote of angina pectoris, "To have any other malady is to be sick; to have this is to be dying. ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"IN speaking of angina pectoris, a by no means slight difficulty one encounters at the outset arises from the fact that the clinical and pathological scope ..."

4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"WILLIAM H. ROBEY BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL angina pectoris WITH AND WITHOUT CARDIAC ... When we use the term angina pectoris we are, of course, referring to a ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"There existed strong'hereditary predisposition to angina pectoris, all of the patient's family suffering more or less from the same trouble. ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"Vn. angina pectoris ... —Tn 1768 Heberden described a "disorder of the breast," to which he gave the name of "angina pectoris." Before this date Morgagni an ..."

7. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"CHAPTER XXIX angina pectoris There is considerable uncertainty as to the proper classification of the various painful sensations centering ..."

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