MYALGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myalgia mean? 

• MYALGIA (noun)
  The noun MYALGIA has 1 sense:

1. pain in a muscle or group of muscles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYALGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pain in a muscle or group of muscles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

myalgia; myodynia

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

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

Derivation:

myalgic (of or relating to myalgia)

 Context examples 

It is marked by inflammation of the nasal mucosa, pharynx, and conjunctiva; headache; myalgia; often fever, chills, and prostration; and occasionally involvement of the myocardium or central nervous system.

(Influenza, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents with a vesicular skin rush, usually associated with fever, headache, and myalgias.

(Chicken Pox Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents with flu-like symptoms including fever, chills, cough, pleuritic chest pain and myalgias.

(Blastomycosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include sudden onset of fever, headache, rash, arthralgia, and myalgia.

(Dengue Fever, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in myalgias, muscle cramping and stiffness, and exercise intolerance.

(Glycogen Storage Disease Type V, NCI Thesaurus)

Classical dengue (dengue fever) is self-limiting and characterized by fever, myalgia, headache, and rash.

(Dengue Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Symptoms include fever, malaise, sore throat, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, arthralgia, and myalgia.

(Erythema Multiforme, NCI Thesaurus)