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

Periods of gout, pleurisy, of fevers with arterial debility, and with arterial strength, Periods of rhaphania, of nervous cough, hemicrania, arterial h�morrhages, h�morrhoids, h�moptoe, epilepsy, palsy, apoplexy, madness.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I 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

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