Plural of angina; multiple instances or types of severe throat pain or the chest pain condition affecting the heart.
From Latin 'angina' (strangling sensation), derived from 'angere' (to strangle, choke). The term originally described the sensation of throat constriction.
Interestingly, 'angina' originally meant sore throat in ancient medicine, but doctors eventually realized the same sensation could happen in the chest—like they were borrowing a word that perfectly described the feeling of being squeezed from the inside.
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