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 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
Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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 Erasmus Darwin
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
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