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hemicrania

[hem-i-krey-nee-uh] / ˌhɛm ɪˈkreɪ ni ə /


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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 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 dens sapienti�, or last tooth of the upper jaw, frequently decays first, and gives hemicrania over the eye on the same side.

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

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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