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COSTALGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does costalgia mean? 

COSTALGIA (noun)
  The noun COSTALGIA has 1 sense:

1. pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribsplay

  Familiarity information: COSTALGIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COSTALGIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

costalgia; pleuralgia; pleurodynia

Hypernyms ("costalgia" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)


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