Definition of Arthralgia

1. Noun. Pain in a joint or joints.

Generic synonyms: Hurting, Pain
Derivative terms: Arthralgic

Definition of Arthralgia

1. Noun. pain in a joint, especially when not caused by arthritis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arthralgia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Arthralgia

1. Pain in a joint. Origin: Gr. Arthron = joint (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arthralgia

artforms
artful
artful pleading
artful pleadings
artfull
artfully
artfulness
artfulnesses
artgoing
arthen
arthoplasty
arthouse
arthouses
arthragra
arthral
arthralgia (current term)
arthralgia saturnina
arthralgias
arthralgic
arthrectomy
arthresthesia
arthrifuge
arthritic
arthritic atrophy
arthritic calculus
arthritic general pseudoparalysis
arthritical
arthritically
arthritics
arthritide

Literary usage of Arthralgia

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

1. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1856)
""The same name, arthralgia, might be given also to those pains in the limbs which mark the third degree of scurvy, and which have been pointed out by the ..."

2. The British and Foreign Medical Review Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1840)
"It should be observed also, that sixty-eight of the 201 uncomplicated cases of arthralgia, that is, one third of the number, occurred in red-lead ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1860)
"There are four distinct affections produced by lead : colic, arthralgia, paralysis, ... In lead arthralgia, beside tV general symptoms of chronic poisoning, ..."

4. Materia medica: Physiological and Applied by John James Drysdale (1884)
"There is no heat, no redness, no swelling attending the pain, no pyrexia, so that this arthralgia cannot be mistaken for acute articular rheumatism : it ..."

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