hemicrania

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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 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

The periods of hemicrania, and of painful epilepsy, are liable to obey lunar periods, both in their diurnal returns, and in their greater periods of weeks, but are also induced by other exciting causes.

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

Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia.

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

More commonly it is frontal or general; occasionally we found it occipital, and still more rarely it was unilateral, constituting hemicrania.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various