angina

[In Fr. angine; Port. & Lat. angina the quinsy. From Lat. an go, Gr. ἄγχω ( angcho ) = to pre tight, especially the throat; to strangle.] Medicine : *1. A quinsy or other inflammatory disease of the throat. It is an inflammation on the parts "Angina.of the throat subservient to respiration, speech, and deglutition; it is called a strangulation of the fauces, more properly an inflammation of the internal fauces.' -Parr: Med . Dict . (1809), 1. 116. 2. The angina pectoris (q.v.). " Angina occurs in both sexes."-Dr. John Forbes: Cycl. Pract. Med . , vol. i., p. 83.