Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Muscular pain or tenderness, especially when diffuse and nonspecific.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, a morbid state of a muscle, characterizeā by pain and tenderness. Its pathology is obscure. Also called myodynia and muscular rheumatism
Wiktionary
- n. pathology Muscular pain or tenderness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pain in a muscle or group of muscles
Etymologies
- From New Latin my- (“muscle”) + -algia (“pain”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There will be pain in the muscles of the buttocks, called myalgia; and pain at the end of the spine, called coccygodynia.”
“Following an episode of Lyme disease that is treated appropriately, some persons have a variety of subjective complaints such as myalgia, arthralgia, or fatigue.”
“Though initially reluctant to seek medical attention, he finally made an appointment with a National Health specialist, and two weeks later, he was seen and diagnosed with a form of myalgia (Google it, I did).”
“This protocol at high methosarb and myalgia methoserpidine and postmortem methotrexate cohort.”
“Oral oseltamivir an increasing lithane are in lithium and myalgia consumed.”
“Statin therapy induces ultrastructural damage in skeletal muscle in patients without myalgia.”
“Two years ago my mom was diagnosed with auto immune hepititis, fiber myalgia and the doctors told her that there was no going back, she was going to continually get worse.”
“Dr. Robert L. Wortmann, from the University of Oklahoma Medical School, provides some anecdotal evidence for its value in statin associated myalgia/myopathy syndrome.”
Coenzyme Q Parkinsons trial -negative results-what about statin myopathy?
“Early symptoms are often non-specific, and usually include fever, headache and myalgia after an incubation period of 3-9 days..”
“For example, myalgia means muscle pain because my means muscle; never used metaphorically, such as “That insurance company is a real algia in the neck.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘myalgia’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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My . . . uh . . .
maija, maya, maia, mia, mya, maieutics, maja, miya, mialuthien, miah, maya deren, maya lin and 178 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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myo-, my-
of or relating to muscles
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-algia, -algy
involving pain
neuralgia, nostalgia, myalgia, fibromyalgia, algetic, algesiometer, algophobia, coxalgy
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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soitoldthatfool's Words
terra incognita, tete à tete, gourmand, savant, lascivious, salacious, cretin, viscous, intrinsic, malaise, mien, milieu and 133 more...
Tweets
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soitoldthatfool a better term, for muscle pain
Oct 16, 2007