Definition of Coxalgia

1. n. Pain in the hip.

Definition of Coxalgia

1. Noun. pain in the hip ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coxalgia

1. pain in the hip [n -S] : COXALGIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Coxalgia

1. 1. Hip joint disease. 2. Pain in the hip. Origin: L. Coxa = hip This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coxalgia

cowsons
cowtree
cowtrees
cowwheat
cowwheats
cowy
cowyard
cox
coxa
coxa adducta
coxa plana
coxa valga
coxae
coxal
coxalgia (current term)
coxalgias
coxalgic
coxalgies
coxalgy
coxcomb
coxcombic
coxcombical
coxcombically
coxcombly
coxcombries
coxcombry
coxcombs
coxcomical
coxcomically

Literary usage of Coxalgia

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

1. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1829)
"Observations and Remarks on the Nature and Treatment of coxalgia. ... Various have been the methods of treating coxalgia, and we have had occasion to see ..."

2. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck (1885)
"In this form of coxalgia, the patient commonly recovers with a stiffened or even completely ankylosed, though useful and straight limb, dislocation of the ..."

3. A System of Instruction in X-ray Methods and Medical Uses of Light, Hot-air by Samuel Howard Monell (1902)
"CHAPTER XVI DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATIONS THE X-RAY AND coxalgia. ... In presenting a paper on coxalgia, Coover remarks that, until the introduction of the X-ray, ..."

4. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine by Joseph Laurie (1848)
"... to melancholy or an unaccountable feeling of dread. * ADMINISTRATION. Same as Chamomilla. PAIN IN THE HIP. HIP-GOUT. RHEUMATISM IN THE HIP.. coxalgia ..."

5. Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital: Being an Epitome of the Practice of by Thomas George Morton, William Hunt, John Bingham Roberts, Frank Woodbury (1880)
"... COMPARATIVELY few cases of coxalgia are treated in this hospital. Of the 27 recorded in the list, 16 had a positive history of previous injury. ..."

6. Essentials of the principles and practice of medicine by Henry Hartshorne (1881)
"... as they are in most cases) must be added, of course, to mechanical means. Cures are thus sometimes effected in cases once thought hopeless. coxalgia. ..."

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