myalgia

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noun

Muscular pain or tenderness.

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myodynia
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Meanings

nounmyalgia (countable and uncountable, plural myalgias)

plural myalgias

  1. countableuncountablemedicineMuscular pain or tenderness.

    Southern physicians were prone to calling all fevers, malaises, myalgias, and headaches "malaria" and to treating them with quinine.

    2001, Margaret Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States

Synonyms & antonyms

nounpain in a muscle or group of muscles

Similar
myodynia
Broader
painhurting

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From my- (“muscle”) + -algia (“pain”).

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Translations

Bulgarian мускулна болка
  • мускулна болка (muskulna bolka)muscular pain or tenderness
Catalan miàlgia
  • miàlgiamuscular pain or tenderness
Chinese Mandarin 肌痛
  • 肌痛 (jītòng)muscular pain or tenderness
Czech myalgie
  • myalgiemuscular pain or tenderness
Finnish lihassärky, myalgia
  • lihassärkymuscular pain or tenderness
  • myalgiamuscular pain or tenderness
German Myalgie
  • Myalgiemuscular pain or tenderness
Greek μυαλγία
  • μυαλγία (myalgía)muscular pain or tenderness
Irish miailge
  • miailgemuscular pain or tenderness
Italian mialgia
  • mialgiamuscular pain or tenderness
Tagalog sakit-kalamnan
  • sakit-kalamnanmuscular pain or tenderness
Cite this entry
APA

myalgia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/myalgia

MLA

“myalgia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/myalgia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “myalgia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/myalgia.

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