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myalgia

myalgia

1 7.8
Pain in a muscle or group of muscles
  • noun
  • /maɪˈæl.dʒə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mialgia
  • After exercising too much, she was left with debilitating myalgia that made it hard to move.
  • severe myalgia
  • myalgia pain
  • myalgia and muscle

The side effect can be muscle pain, myalgia, muscle soreness.

Examples

  • The side effect can be muscle pain, myalgia, muscle soreness.

  • The patient also experienced severe myalgia and muscle tenderness, which is typical in 30% of patients with polymyositis.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Other characteristic symptoms are high fever, myalgia, and headache.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Other features include sore throat, myalgia, weight loss, arthralgia, and arthritis.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Initial symptoms are typically non-specific, with fever, myalgia, fatigue, and headache being common.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Typically, the disease is relatively innocuous, as other common symptoms are fever, malaise, headache, and myalgia.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Ibuprofen is used to treat fever, headache, influenza, muscle pain, and myalgia.

    Academic text (2016)
  • A suspected dengue case was defined as fever and two of the following: myalgia, arthralgia, headache, and rash.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Her symptoms had followed a 3-day prodrome of dyspnea, myalgia, and sore throat.

    Academic text (2006)
  • There are no specific symptoms: most patients have a history of fever, chills, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and malaise.

    Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

myodynia
vsmyalgia
  • Specialized
9.9

Pain in one or more muscles

is the identical meaning but used as the alternative label

Compounds

epidemic myalgia
  • Specialized
8.6

A disease that causes sudden chest pain and spreads in outbreaks

How Painful

agony
135 3.9
myalgia
  • Specialized
1 7.8
soreness
11 2.3
twinge
17 4.9

Surface Forms

myalgia singular
myalgias plural

Morphology

myalgia = my + algia

Formed from medical combining forms 'my-' (muscle) and '-algia' (pain) which are not productive standalone English morphemes, so learners cannot reliably derive 'muscle pain' from the parts.

Etymology

Myalgia comes from Greek parts my- meaning 'muscle' and -algia meaning 'pain', so it literally means 'muscle pain'.