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noun any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain
noun a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart
originFrom Latin angina (“quinsy; strangling, choking”), from angō (“to press together, to choke, to hurt (cause pain)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0