Serious angina pectoris occurs in elderly people whose arteries are degenerate.
Heberden, an English physician, a little over a century ago, pointed out that there existed in cases of true angina pectoris a degeneration of the coronary arteries.
Possibly the chief conditions that may be confused with some of the results of arteriosclerosis are pseudo angina pectoris which may be mistaken for true angina pectoris, and ulcer of the stomach, appendicitis (?
It has been thought by some that the pain in angina pectoris might be due to this cause.
The disease of angina pectoris comes on quite suddenly, and does not give any notice of its approach.
There are cases of angina pectoris in which the patient has recovered and appeared perfectly well for a period of twenty-four hours, and then the attack has returned.
Angina pectoris comes under the denomination of spasmodic diseases.
I must say there would be great difficulty in detecting the difference in cases of angina pectoris and strychnia.
I am of opinion that the fact of the recurrence of the second fit in Cook’s case is more the symptom of angina pectoris than of strychnia poison.
I must say, there would be great difficulty in detecting the difference in the cases of angina pectoris and strychnia.
By Mr. Serjeant SHEE: There are cases of anginapectoris in which the patient has recovered and appeared perfectly well for a period of 24 hours, and then the attack has returned.
True angina pectoris probably does not occur without some serious organic disease of the heart, mostly coronary sclerosis, fatty degeneration of the heart muscle, adherent pericarditis and perhaps some nerve degenerations.
Various pains which are not true angina pectoris occur in the left side of the chest; these have been called pseudo-anginas.
The diagnosis of a real anginapectoris from a false angina may not be difficult.
It could of course be taken only in those cases in which there were more or less continued anginal pains; the true typical acute angina pectoris attack is over, or the patient is dead, before any blood pressure determination could be made.
The position of the patient with true angina pectorisis characteristic.
Sooner or later such a condition will cause attacks of anginapectoris and more or less pronounced symptoms of chronic myocarditis and fatty degeneration, as previously described.
Amyl nitrite is required only when a sudden immediate effect is desired in angina pectoris or in some other serious spasmodic condition.
While angina pectoris and edema of the lungs were not infrequent causes of death in men, it was a rare cause of death in women.
Not a few of the serious attacks of angina pectoris which physicians see come as a consequence of family jars, owing to the persistence of a son or daughter in a course offensive to the parent.
A classical example of the influence of the mind and the emotions in the production of attacks of angina pectoris in those who are predisposed to them by a pre-existing pathological condition, is the case of the famous John Hunter.
In the chapter on Angina Pectoris attention is called to the fact that there are may forms of pseudo-angina due to cardiac neuroses consequent upon gastric disturbance and without heart lesion.
But when a man has angina pectoris he knows the end may come at any moment and in any place.
Now that you know Turnbull died of angina pectoris there is no necessity of sending for the coroner," Rochester spoke in haste, his words tumbling over each other.
It was just after the Judge's announcement that 'John Smith,' then sitting in the prisoners cage, was seized with the attack of angina pectoris which ended so fatally a few minutes later.
As long as Mr. Turnbull entered your house on a wager and died from an attack of angina pectoris the inquest is likely to be a mere formality.
Rochester's contention that Jimmie died from angina pectoris would seem borne out by what transpired," he said.
He was only operated upon for appendicitis a fortnight ago, and they say that he has anginapectoris amongst other complications.
This shows to what an extreme extent the action of the spider poison had gone--even to implicating the diaphragm; and it is noteworthy that Anstie records a case of angina pectoris (Neuralgia and its Counterfeits, p.
Jones suggests, in angina pectoris vasomotoria that it will be found especially serviceable.
Of the changes in respiration accompanying angina pectoris we have, then, both the general, and the rarest, form, produced pathogenetically by the poison of Latrodectus mactans.
In its physiological action the poison of Latrodectus mactans resembles angina pectoris vasomotoria--a purely functional derangement.
Although I have thought fit here to give an outline of angina pectoris as a connected whole, I shall have occasion to recur to the subject again under the heads of Pathology and Treatment of Neuralgias in General.
But there are certain special features in the causation of anginapectoris which require separate notice, just as there are special features in its pathology.
Angina pectoris is extremely rare under middle life, and is much more common in males than in females.
An attack of angina pectoris usually comes on with a sudden seizure of pain, felt at first over the region of the heart, but radiating through the chest in various directions, and frequently extending down the left arm.
It was the greatest absurdity to believe or say "Pontificem in pectoris sui scrinio omnem traditionem repositam et infusam habere.
Boniface adds that the Pope holds all rights "in scrinio pectoris sui.
This proved to be an attack of the angina pectoris which, several years later, returned with violence.
Angina pectoris they call it, but where it comes from they don't say, they don't know.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pectoris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
