Definition of "odontalgia" [‖O•don•tal•gi•a]

• A toothache. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If this experiment is again tried in odontalgia, or hemicrania, the painful membrane of the tooth or head should be included between the south and north poles of a horse-shoe magnet, or between the contrary poles of two different magnets, that the magnetism may be accumulated on the torpid part."
• "Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia."
• "Hence odontalgia is found to belong to the order of decreased irritation."