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kinesialgia

kinesialgia noun: pain on muscular exertion; pain caused by muscular movement.

Noun

kinesialgia (uncountable)

  1. Pain on muscular exertion; pain caused by muscular movement.
    • Cinesialgia, or kinesialgia, means, according to him, that state of the muscle in which its contractility cannot come into play without producing locally a keen and sometimes intolerable pain, which is always more or less incompatible with the regular exercise of the motor function.1875 March 10, “Gubler on Cinesialgia”, in The London Medical Record

Forms of kinesialgia

alternative formkinesalgia

Origin of kinesialgia

From kinesi- + -algia.

Questions about kinesialgia

What does kinesialgia mean?
Kinesialgia means pain on muscular exertion; pain caused by muscular movement.
What part of speech is kinesialgia?
Kinesialgia is a noun.

Words near kinesialgia in the dictionary

  1. kineses
  2. Kineshma
  3. kinesi-
  4. kinesia
  5. kinesia paradoxa
  6. kinesialgia
  7. kinesiatric
  8. kinesiatrics
  9. kinesic
  10. kinesically
  11. kinesics

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