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

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

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

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

The dens sapienti�, or last tooth of the upper jaw, frequently decays first, and gives hemicrania over the eye on the same side.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus