-odynia
Pain.
[Greek odunē, pain.]
Pleurodynia (Greek pleura, side, pleuron, rib) is severe pain in the muscles between the ribs or in the diaphragm; mastodynia (Greek mastos, breast) is pain in the breast; coccygodynia is pain in the coccyx, the triangular bone at the base of the spinal column.
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