- angina[angina 词源字典]
- angina: see anguish
[angina etymology, angina origin, 英语词源] - angina (n.)
- 1570s, from Latin angina "infection of the throat," from Greek ankhone "a strangling" (see anger); probably influenced in Latin by angere "to throttle." Angina pectoris is from 1744, from Latin pectoris, genitive of pectus "chest" (see pectoral (adj.)).