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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 hemicrania, or partial head-ach, I believe to be almost always a disease from association; though it is not impossible, but a person may take cold on one side of the head only.

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

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

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




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