The writing or description of pain and suffering; a medical or literary account of painful experiences.
From Greek 'algos' (pain) plus '-graphy' (writing/description). A specialized term combining classical Greek roots to describe the documentation or narration of pain.
Algraphy connects to a whole family of '-graphy' words (biography, geography, photography), but it's one of the few that focuses specifically on documenting suffering—ancient medical writers used these detailed pain descriptions to teach students how to recognize and treat conditions, making algraphy one of medicine's oldest teaching tools.
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