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

The last tooth of the under-jaw is also liable to produce a similar hemicrania, when it begins to decay.

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

The hemicrania, or partial head-ach, I believe to be almost always a disease from association; though it is not impossible, but a person may take cold on one side of the head only.

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