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Friday 05 May 2017: The medical term for a hangover
The (relatively recent) medical term for a hangover is "veisalgia"; from "kveis", an Old Norse term for "uneasiness after debauchery" and "algia", Greek for "pain". It was coined in 2000 in an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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