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

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

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 Weekley, Ernest

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

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