Path. Also 6–7 angine. [L. angina quinsy: cf. ang-ĕre to choke, strangle, and Gr. ἀγχόνη strangling. The L. was until recently supposed to be angīna, whence the erroneous pronunciation prevalent in English. Fr. angine (Cotgr.) was also in Eng. use.]
1. Quinsy.
1590. Pasquil’s Apol., I. C b. A daungerous Angina in your throate.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. (1641), 83/2. Knew the cold Cramp, th’Angine and Lunacy.
1645. Evelyn, Diary (1827), I. 341. Afflicted with an angina and sore throat.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Angina is the same with that we popularly call quinzy.
1832. Thompson, Ann. Influenza, 57. in February 1738 coughs and anginas were very common amongst horses.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 13. Scarlet fever and angina … often occur spontaneously.
2. (More fully, Angina Pectoris.) A dangerous disease, the paroxysms of which are characterized by sudden and severe pain in the lower part of the chest, towards the left side, with a feeling of suffocation and alarm of impending death; they are brought on by over-exertion when the heart is diseased; called also breast-pang, heart-stroke, and spasm of the chest.
1744. Walls, in Phil. Trans. (abr.), IX. 89. On the Angina Pectoris.
1811. Hooper, Med. Dict., 51. Angina pectoris is attended with a considerable degree of danger.
1833. J. Forbes, in Cycl. Pract. Med. (ed. 3), I. 83. Angina occurs in both sexes.
1877. Roberts, Handbk. Med., II. 24. Some cases of sudden death are due to angina.
1883. Daily News, 6 July, 5/3. The death of the Duke of Marlborough … from an attack of angina pectoris.
