phrenalgia
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[edit]phrenalgia (uncountable)
- psychalgia; non-physical pain
- 1880, Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Francis Burton, The Lusiads, page xv:
- ...compelled me to seek a talisman against homesickness and the nervous troubles which learned men call Phrenalgia and Autophobia.
- pain in the diaphragm