Definitions for chest pain
chest pain

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chest painnoun

   pain in the chest

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chest pain

   Chest pain is pain or discomfort in the chest, typically the front of the chest. It may be described as sharp, dull, pressure, heaviness or squeezing. Associated symptoms may include pain in the shoulder, arm, upper abdomen, or jaw, along with nausea, sweating, or shortness of breath. It can be divided into heart-related and non-heart-related pain. Pain due to insufficient blood flow to the heart is also called angina pectoris. Those with diabetes or the elderly may have less clear symptoms.Serious and relatively common causes include acute coronary syndrome such as a heart attack (31%), pulmonary embolism (2%), pneumothorax, pericarditis (4%), aortic dissection (1%) and esophageal rupture. Other common causes include gastroesophageal reflux disease (30%), muscle or skeletal pain (28%), pneumonia (2%), shingles (0.5%), pleuritis, traumatic and anxiety disorders. Determining the cause of chest pain is based on a person's medical history, a physical exam and other medical tests. About 3% of heart attacks, however, are initially missed.Management of chest pain is based on the underlying cause. Initial treatment often includes the medications aspirin and nitroglycerin. The response to treatment does not usually indicate whether the pain is heart-related. When the cause is unclear, the person may be referred for further evaluation.Chest pain represents about 5% of presenting problems to the emergency room. In the United States, about 8 million people go to the emergency department with chest pain a year. Of these, about 60% are admitted to either the hospital or an observation unit. The cost of emergency visits for chest pain in the United States is more than US$8 billion per year. Chest pain accounts for about 0.5% of visits by children to the emergency department.

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1. chest pain

   Chest pain is a discomfort or sensation of pain felt anywhere along the front of the body between the neck and the upper abdomen. This pain can be dull, sharp, burning or crushing and it can vary in its intensity and frequency. Potential causes include heart, lung, muscle, or gastrointestinal problems. It can be a symptom of various medical conditions, with the most serious being heart-related illnesses such as angina or a heart attack. Any persistent chest pain should be evaluated by a medical professional to determine the cause and appropriate treatment.

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1. Chest pain

   Chest pain may be a symptom of a number of serious conditions and is generally considered a medical emergency. Even though it may be determined that the pain is non-cardiac in origin, this is often a diagnosis of exclusion made after ruling out more serious causes of the pain.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chest Pain

   Pressure, burning, or numbness in the chest.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chest pain in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chest pain in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of chest pain in a Sentence

1. Elliot Richard Haut:

   Otherwise healthy women sometimes start to have symptoms—a swollen leg, or shortness of breath, or chest pain—and people will often blow it off.

2. Judith Hochman:

   For those with mild or no chest pain, there's really not a role for immediately stenting.

3. Jenny Ruelas:

   I started getting weird rashes around my body and I had a fever. I had a headache. I did have weakness. For two days, I couldn't walk or move. It would burn to open my eyes, definitely chest pain all the time and pain in my back, which was my lungs. I did have loss of taste and smell. I definitely couldn't eat. I would vomit.

4. Mike Stone:

   You can scan close to the entire body, we were using lung sonography to look at patients with shortness of breath and chest pain far before Covid and we'll be using it to look at them long after Covid has hopefully been handled.

5. Michele Heisler:

   You can't say that someone dies from any form of delirium, it's like saying, what is the cause of death ? Chest pain. What is the cause of death ? I don't know, shortness of breath. In a way, it's as nonsensical.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=chest pain
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chest_Pain
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=chest pain