a. exanthematic a

The a. of an eruptive fever (e. g., scarlet fever), a. follicular is, a folliculosa, a. folliculosa pharyngea. See follicular a. a. I/udovici, a. Ludwigii. A diffuse phlegmonous inflammation of the floor of the mouth and of the inter muscular and subcutaneous ti ue of the submaxillary region, a. pectoris. Breast pang, dyspnea of the heart, neuralgia of the heart, diaphragmatic gout; a term applied by Heberden to a disease first described by Rougnon in 1768. It is characterized by sudden attacks of terrible pain in the region of the heart, often radiating to the shoulders and down the left arm, with intense difficulty in breathing, a feeling of constriction of the chest, an overpowering apprehension of impending death (so that all movements are avoided, lest they should precipitate that event), deadly pallor, cold sweat, and great weakening of the heart's action, while the pulse is diminished in volume. Death frequently occurs in an attack. True a. p. is a ociated with serious disease of the heart (either valvular disease, degeneration of the muscular ti ue, or embolism of the coronary arteries), and it is not uncommon for the paroxysm to prove fatal. The false or pseudo-form has been referred to some pathological condition of the nervous apparatus of the heart, aphthous a. Angina accompanied with the formation of aphthae on the tonsils or in some other part of the throat, follicular a. Syn.: chronic bronchitis, clergyman's sore throat. A chronic diffused catarrh of the pharynx and larynx, common in persons much employed in public speaking or singing, or who drink alcoholic liquors to exce , simple a. Ordinary sore throat; hyperemia of the fauces with more or le pain in swallowing, often accompanied with a swollen state of the uvula, coryza, and fever.