arthralgian.

1840 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 10 447 According to M. Tanquerel, arthralgia is with the exception of colic the most frequent result of lead poisoning.

1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 566 An attack of colic or arthralgia [in lead-poisoning].

1957 J. Strachey tr. J. Breuer & S. Freud Stud. Hysteria (ed. 2) 190 If a slight injury to a joint is gradually followed by a severe arthralgia, no doubt the process involves a psychical element.

1970 Rolling Meadows (Illinois) Herald 20 July The arthralgia and arthritic reaction..are still being reported.

2007 Southern Med. Jrnl. 98 484 A case of recurrent arthralgias in a military service member presenting to the emergency department.

1841 London Med. Gaz. 1 670/1 It [sc. lead colic] is regarded as a neuralgia of the sympathetic nerve, and the opinion is in some degree supported by the ‘arthralgic’ affections which frequently accompany it.

1925 Lancet 10 Jan. 86/2 The first [type of mumps rheumatism] is an arthralgic form in which several joints are affected at the same time.

2005 N. T. Chalfoun & M. E. Goldman in J. S. Alpert Cardiol. for Primary Care Physician (ed. 4) xxviii. 301/2 Arthralgic and upper respiratory symptoms should raise the suspicion of a viral etiology.