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
For the later transition of meaning we may compare megrims, from Fr. migraine, head-ache, Greco-Lat. hemicrania, lit. half-skull, because supposed to affect one side only of the head.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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 Darwin, Erasmus
The hemicrania, or partial head-ach, I believe to be almost always a disease from association; though it is not impossible, but a person may take cold on one side of the head only.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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