mastalgia

1. 1.

   pain in the breast

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Other forms of mastalgia

plural

mastalgias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mastalgia

What does mastalgia mean?

mastalgia means "pain in the breast".

How many syllables are in mastalgia?

mastalgia has 4 syllables: ma-stal-gi-a. The stress falls on "stal".

Is mastalgia a common word?

mastalgia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.