praecordial

This includes the praecordial pains which very closely resemble those of true angina.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

To-day we are all clouds and rain, and my courage is down to zero, with praecordial discomfort.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

I have been bothered with praecordial uneasiness and intermittent pulse ever since I have been here, and at last I got tired of it and went home the day before yesterday to get carefully overhauled.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

Ever since this last pleuritic business I have been troubled with praecordial uneasiness.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

To-day we are all clouds and rain, and my courage is down to zero, with praecordial discomfort.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

Ever since this last pleuritic business I have been troubled with praecordial uneasiness.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

I have been bothered with praecordial uneasiness and intermittent pulse ever since I have been here, and at last I got tired of it and went home the day before yesterday to get carefully overhauled.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

At first the patient becomes anxious and restless and cannot remain quiet; he changes his position; he moves about from place to place; he seems to have a great deal of anxiety about the heart, praecordial anguish, as it is termed, particularly at night.

Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893

"I recalled a well-known acoustic phenomenon," he wrote, "namely if you place your ear against one end of a wooden beam, the scratch of a pin at the other extremity is most distinctly audible … Taking a sheaf of paper, I rolled it into a very tight roll, one end of which I placed over the praecordial region, while I put my ear to the other.

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