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)
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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
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
Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The natural cure of hemicrania is the accumulation of sensorial power during the rest or sickness of the patient.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The periods of hemicrania, and of painful epilepsy, are liable to obey lunar periods, both in their diurnal returns, and in their greater periods of weeks, but are also induced by other exciting causes.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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