rachialgian.

1772 D. MacBride Methodical Introd. Theory & Pract. Physic 527 The nervous colic is termed Rachialgia by Sauvages, who makes it a distinct genus.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Rachialgia,... This term was formerly applied to several species of colic which induced pain in the back.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 237 Dr. Warren's description of thirty-two domestics of the Duke of Newcastle's family..who were all seized with rhachialgia after having used, as their common drink, a small white wine that had been adulterated with some of the oxydes of lead.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Rachialgia, a pain in the spine.

1836 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 45 451 Rhachialgia of the neck may give rise to rigidity of the neck, or the morbid inflexion of the head, [etc.].

a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 407 Seeing how open to misconstruction the term ‘spinal irritation’ is, we shall find great advantages..in substituting for it the name of Rachialgia.

1916 Lancet 27 May 1096/1 Frequently the injections provoke in the following 12 or 36 hours an exacerbation of the symptoms—cephalalgia, rhachialgia, and stiffness of neck.

1936 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 34 606/1 He was halted by three untoward happenings, a respiratory collapse that just escaped a fatal outcome, a hyperpyrexia of 104°F., and an intense rachialgia and headache that persisted for months.

1985 Bioelectrochem. & Bioenergetics 14 170 We considered only patients with painful and functional persistent symptomatology,..in this case mainly as rachialgia or limb dystrophic syndrome.

1785 G. Wallis tr. F. B. de Sauvages Treat. Dis. Eyes 300 Rachialgic amaurosy.

1833 Lancet 6 Apr. 33/2 The rachialgic pain, then, may extend along the whole of the spine.

1837 J. H. Guenebault tr. J. J. Virey Nat. Hist. Negro Race App. 147 The rachialgic colic, known under the name of entrepana,..prevails in the two Castilles.