Angina pectoris a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; — called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

Anginous
(An"gi*nous An"gi*nose`) a. (Med.) Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

Angio-
(An"gi*o-) [Gr. 'aggei^on vessel receptacle.] A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

Angiocarpous
(An`gi*o*car"pous) a. [Angio- + Gr. karpo`s fruit.] (Bot.) (a) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C. (b) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. Gray.

Angiography
(An`gi*og"ra*phy) n. [Angio- + -graphy: cf. F. angiographie.] (Anat.) A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Angiology
(An`gi*ol"o*gy) n. [Angio- + -logy.] (Anat.) That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Angioma
(||An`gi*o"ma) n. [Angio- + -oma.] (Med.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

Angiomonospermous
(An`gi*o*mon`o*sper"mous) a. [Angio- + monospermous.] (Bot.) Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

Angioscope
(An"gi*o*scope) n. [Angio- + -scope.] An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

Angiosperm
(An"gi*o*sperm) n. [Angio- + Gr. seed.] (Bot.) A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

wrath and ire of men are often connected with a haughty and vindictive spirit; rage and fury are distempers of the soul to be regarded only with abhorrence.

Anger
(An"ger) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Angered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Angering.] [Cf. Icel. angra.]

1. To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.]

He . . . angereth malign ulcers.
Bacon.

2. To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.
Clarendon.

Angerly
(An"ger*ly), adv. Angrily. [Obs. or Poetic]

Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.
Shak.

Angevine
(An"ge*vine) a. [F. Angevin.] Of or pertaining to Anjou in France.n. A native of Anjou.

Angienchyma
(||An`gi*en"chy*ma) n. [Gr. receptacle + . Formed like Parenchyma.] (Bot.) Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

Angina
(||An*gi"na) n. [L., fr. angere to strangle, to choke. See Anger, n.] (Med.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.


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