hemicrania
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Etymology
Origin of hemicrania
1650–60; < Late Latin hēmicrānia, hēmicrānium < Greek hēmikrā́nion pain on one side of the head ( see hemi-, cranium)
Example Sentences
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The doctor mentions several possible diagnoses: new daily persistent headache, migraine with aura, and hemicrania continua, a headache on one side of the head that never ends.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2016
Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
An instance of the first of those is the sympathy between the membranes of the alveolar processes of the jaws, and the membranes above or beneath the muscles about the temples in hemicrania.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Mrs. —— is frequently liable to hemicrania with sickness, which is probably owing to a diseased tooth; the paroxysm occurs irregularly, but always after some previous fatigue, or other cause of debility.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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