Definition of Odontalgia

1. Noun. An ache localized in or around a tooth.

Exact synonyms: Toothache
Generic synonyms: Ache, Aching
Specialized synonyms: Aerodontalgia

Definition of Odontalgia

1. n. Toothache.

Definition of Odontalgia

1. Noun. (medicine) toothache ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Odontalgia

1. Toothache. Origin: NL, fr. Gr., a tooth + pain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Odontalgia

odograph
odographs
odometer
odometers
odometre
odometres
odometric
odometrical
odometries
odometry
odonata
odonate
odonates
odonatology
odontagra
odontalgia (current term)
odontalgia dentalis
odontalgias
odontalgic
odontalgiæ
odontalgy
odontectomy
odonterism
odontiasis
odontic
odontinoid
odontist
odontists
odontitis
odonto-

Literary usage of Odontalgia

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.) (1874)
"... root macerated in a pint of rectified spirit, for the relief of odontalgia and facial neuralgia. The dose is from five to twenty drops every six hours. ..."

2. Theory and Practice of Obstetrics Including Diseases of Pregnancy and by Pierre Cazeaux, Stéphane Tarnier (1889)
"odontalgia. Various forms of cephalalgia and obstinate ... odontalgia is the most common of all the neuralgias of pregnant women. ..."

3. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"odontalgia. UNDER this common head are to be studied the various pains in the teeth, however induced. The term comes from the two Greek roots, ..."

4. The Modern Practice of Physic: Exhibiting the Characters, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Thomas (1813)
"... way in such cases will lie, to begin with about three drops repeated twice a day, and во to increase tire number gradually to eight or ten. odontalgia ..."

5. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"TOOTHACHE, or odontalgia. Toothache scarcely deserves the name of a disease, being merely a ... odontalgia."

6. The Principles and practice of dentistry: Including Anatomy, Physiology by Chapin Aaron Harris, Philip H. Austen (1882)
"... toothache, or odontalgia, as it is technically termed, is a symptom of some functional or structural disturbance, either of the organ in which the pain ..."

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