Astalgia
/əˈstæl.dʒə/noun
Pain in a bone or bones.
Did you know?Astalgia is a rare medical term closely associated with ostealgia, whose Greek-built structure literally combines “bone” with “pain.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*alg-
“To feel pain or be painful; the reconstructed source of the Greek pain-root.”
Ancient Greek
Greek
álgos (ἄλγος)
“Pain, suffering, or bodily distress.”
Ancient Greek
Greek
ostéon (ὀστέον)
“Bone; the source of the combining form oste-.”
19th Century
Medical English
ostealgia
“Pain in a bone, formed from Greek oste- (“bone”) and -algia (“pain”).”
19th–20th Century
English
astalgia
“A rare shortened or variant medical form meaning pain in a bone or bones.”