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
It is superior to anything else when inhaled in so-called angio-spastic hemicrania, giving rapid relief in the individual paroxysms and prolonging the intervals between the latter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
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
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
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