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n. - An ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region.

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Usage examples (14)
  • He has suffered for several years with violent gastralgia and obstinate dyspepsia, for which he has long used morphine.
  • Neurasthenia, dyspepsia, gastralgia, enteritis, and pains in different parts of the body.
  • The cause of gastralgia is a local or sympathetic irritation of the nerves distributed to the stomach.
  • If gastritis be the affection the pain will be augmented; whereas, if it be gastralgia, it will be relieved.
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