hemicrania
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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 late Dr. Monro asserted in his lectures, that he cured the hemicrania, or megrim, by a strong vomit, and a brisk purge immediately after it.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The last tooth of the under-jaw is also liable to produce a similar hemicrania, when it begins to decay.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Periods of gout, pleurisy, of fevers with arterial debility, and with arterial strength, Periods of rhaphania, of nervous cough, hemicrania, arterial h�morrhages, h�morrhoids, h�moptoe, epilepsy, palsy, apoplexy, madness.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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