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

In hemicrania I believe the stomach is always affected secondarily, as no quickness of pulse generally attends it, and as the stomach recovers its activity in about two whole days.

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

No trial was made in cases of angio paralytic hemicrania, since in this affection the drug would be physiologically contraindicated.

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