acrodynia
Medicine (now historical )
noun
A disorder characterized by swelling and pain or paraesthesia of the hands and feet, with gastrointestinal and various other symptoms, probably resulting from mercury poisoning but originally also attributed to ergotism or arsenic poisoning; (in later use) specifically = pink disease.
Origin
Mid 19th century. After French acrodynie.
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