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.

any inflammatory disease of throat, etc.

ETYM Contr. from squinancy, French esquinancie, Latin cynanche a sort of sore throat, Greek, sore throat, dog quinsy, from kynos dog + anchein to choke; cf. also Latin synanche sore throat, Greek. Related to Hound, Anger.
A painful inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues.
Old disease like tonsilitis.
Severe inflammation of tonsils and throat.
Or peritonsillar abscess abscess in the soft palate near one of the tonsils. It may occur in tonsillitis.

Inflammation of the tonsils.

A heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart; SYN. angina.
A disease marked by brief paroxysmal attacks of chest pain precipitated by deficient oxygenation of the heart muscles.

Of or related to the pain of angina pectoris; SYN. anginose, anginous.