angina : Idioms & Phrases

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Angina pectoris

  • noun a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart
    angina.
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  • a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.
Webster 1913

vincent's angina

  • noun an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane
    trench mouth; Vincent's infection.
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