angina pectoris

1. 1.

   a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart

   Synonymsangina

   Broaderheart disease

Questions about angina pectoris

What does angina pectoris mean?

angina pectoris means "a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart".

What is another word for angina pectoris?

Close synonyms include angina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angina pectoris a common word?

angina pectoris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.