A rare medical term referring to gout affecting the tongue; pain or inflammation of the tongue.
From Greek glōssa (tongue) combined with -agra, a suffix meaning 'seizure' or 'attack' (as in podagra for gout of the foot).
This wonderfully obscure medical term shows how doctors in the 1600s-1700s borrowed Greek word parts like building blocks to name diseases—'gout of the tongue' became a single technical term.
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