ovarialgian.
/ə(ʊ)ˌvɛːrɪˈaldʒ(ɪ)ə/, U.S. /oʊˌvɛriˈældʒ(i)ə/ Medicine. Now rare.
Pain in an ovary.
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hysteralgia1657
ovarialgia1848
menostasis1857
mittelschmerz1895
1848 Lancet 19 Feb. 203/2 In dysmenorrhœa, or painful menstruation, the greater portion of the pain is decidedly ovarian, and not uterine.
1872 R. Ludlam Lect. Clin. & Didactic Dis. Women ix. 164 You can diagnosticate ovarialgia from ovaritis by the absence of a chill, fever, or other constitutional symptoms at the outset.
1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIV. 502 This phenomenon (which has been designated ovaralgia..) is one of frequent occurrence in the hysterical.
1898 H. W. Felter & J. U. Lloyd King's Amer. Dispensatory (ed. 18) I. 532 In rheumatic subjects it promptly relieves such ovarian troubles as ovarialgia and neuralgia.
1911 K. K. Koessler tr. A. Pick & A. Hecht Clin. Symptomatol. 440 In general ovarialgia is found more frequently on the left side than the right.
Derivatives
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [adjective] > in womb or ovary
hysteralgic1836
ovarialgic1857
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Ovarialgic,..of or belonging to Ovarialgia, or pain in the ovary.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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