Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, headache on one side of the head; especially, megrim when confined to one side; also, megrim in any form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.
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- noun pathology A headache affecting one side of the head.
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- noun a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
Etymologies
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Examples
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It affects about ten per cent of the population and comes from the Greek word hemicrania, meaning half the head; this refers to the often one-sided excruciating pain.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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The term comes from hemicrania, which is a Greek work that means "half of the head."
WALL STREET FIGHTER - Business News and Money Tips for Men 2009
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The term comes from hemicrania, which is a Greek work that means "half of the head."
WALL STREET FIGHTER - Business News and Money Tips for Men 2009
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A remarkable circumstance attends this kind of hemicrania, viz. that it recurs by periods like those of intermittent fevers, as explained in the
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) The watering eyes bring to mind cluster headaches, paroxysmal hemicrania, and migraine.
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Another name for migraine headaches is hemicrania, which reflects the fact that they usually affect one side of the head.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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It is superior to anything else when inhaled in so-called angio-spastic hemicrania, giving rapid relief in the individual paroxysms and prolonging the intervals between the latter.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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No trial was made in cases of angio paralytic hemicrania, since in this affection the drug would be physiologically contraindicated.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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Periodicity has been observed in stammering (a six-weekly period in one case), and notably in hemicrania or migraine, by Harry Campbell, Osler, etc.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
chained_bear commented on the word hemicrania
"'...it answers admirably in cases of insomnia, morbid anxiety, the pain of wounds, toothache, and head-ache, even hemicrania... Presently, with the blessing, you will see Padeen's face return to its usual benevolent mansuetude; and a few minutes later you will see him glide insensibly to the verge of an opiate coma. It is the most valuable member of the whole pharmacopoeia.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 55
February 27, 2008