Meanings
alternative kinesalgia
- uncountablePain on muscular exertion; pain caused by muscular movement.
Cinesialgia, or kinesialgia, means, according to him, that state of the muscle in which its contractility cannot come into play without producing locally a keen and sometimes intolerable pain, which is always more or less incompatible with the regular exercise of the motor function.
1875 March 10, “Gubler on Cinesialgia”, in The London Medical Record
Origin
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