hemicrania
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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
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 Erasmus Darwin
More commonly it is frontal or general; occasionally we found it occipital, and still more rarely it was unilateral, constituting hemicrania.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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 Ernest Weekley
No trial was made in cases of angio paralytic hemicrania, since in this affection the drug would be physiologically contraindicated.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
