hemicrania
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- hemicranic adjective
Etymology
Origin of hemicrania
1650–60; < Late Latin hēmicrānia, hēmicrānium < Greek hēmikrā́nion pain on one side of the head ( 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 Darwin, Erasmus
As inflaming the teeth by the use of mercury is of use in some kinds of hemicrania.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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 Darwin, Erasmus
In hemicrania I believe the stomach is always affected secondarily, as no quickness of pulse generally attends it, and as the stomach recovers its activity in about two whole days.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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