ETYM Latin, from angere to strangle, to choke. Related to Anger.
Or angina pectoris; Severe pain in the chest due to impaired blood supply to the heart muscle because a coronary artery is narrowed. Faintness and difficulty in breathing accompany the pain. Treatment is by drugs or bypass surgery.
Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
Quinsy; any inflammation of throat or trachea. angina pectoris, spasm of the chest resulting from disease of heart or arteries.