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‖ præcordia Anat.|priːˈkɔːdɪə| [L. pl. the midriff, diaphragm, the entrails, f. præ before + cor, cord- the heart.] The forepart of the thoracic region; the parts or region of the body about the heart.
[1601Holland Pliny xxx. v. II. 380 Now that I am come to speake of the precordiall region of the bodie, know this, That by this one word præcordia, I meane the inwards or entrailes in man or woman.] 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Præcordia, the parts about the heart, as the diaphragma, or midriff. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 234/2 Fainting Fits, Swooning, Sickness at Heart, and other Diseases of the Præcordia. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 106 An uncommon degree of oppression at the præcordia. 1863Aitken Pract. Med. (1866) II. 64 A sense of fluttering in the præcordia, with irregular action of the heart. Hence ‖ præcordiˈalgia [Gr. ἄλγος pain], pain referred to the præcordia.
1895in Syd. Soc. Lex. |