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cephalalgia

American  
[sef-uh-lal-juh, -jee-uh] / ˌsɛf əˈlæl dʒə, -dʒi ə /

noun

Medicine/Medical.
  1. headache.


cephalalgia British  
/ -dʒə, ˌsɛfəˈlældʒɪə /

noun

  1. a technical name for headache

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of cephalalgia

First recorded in 1540–50; cephal- + -algia

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These were pavor nocturnus, sudden sweats, heat, neuralgia, sialorrhea, periodical cephalalgia and, above all, vertigo; and these symptoms were not always accompanied by unconsciousness nor followed by coma.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina

Abstemiousness cures vertigo, cephalalgia, tendency to apoplexy, dyspnoea, gout, old ulcers, impetigo, scrofula, herpes, and various other maladies.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

It is quite evident, admitting that such a change is capable of producing an amount of cerebral irritation sufficient to develop well-marked cephalalgia, that the latter must of necessity be within certain limits continuous.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

The larvae develop and multiply with great rapidity, and sometimes gain admission into the frontal sinus, causing intense cephalalgia, and even death.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

For twenty-four years he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains and partial exophthalmos of the left eye.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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