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
No trial was made in cases of angio paralytic hemicrania, since in this affection the drug would be physiologically contraindicated.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
The natural cure of hemicrania is the accumulation of sensorial power during the rest or sickness of the patient.
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
