An alternative or variant spelling of algolagnia; sexual pleasure derived from pain.
Variant form of algolagnia, using a different suffix pattern (-gny instead of -gnia). In medical terminology, variants like this show how terms evolve and stabilize over time.
Early medical texts use both 'algolagny' and 'algolagnia,' showing that clinical terminology wasn't standardized—the -ia ending eventually won out because it matched other psychiatric Greek-derived terms.
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