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

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

Mrs. —— is frequently liable to hemicrania with sickness, which is probably owing to a diseased tooth; the paroxysm occurs irregularly, but always after some previous fatigue, or other cause of debility.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II 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