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

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 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

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