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Definition of Hemialgia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hemialgia
1. Pain affecting one entire half of the body. Origin: hemi-+ G. Algos, pain (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemialgia
Literary usage of Hemialgia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"... and for the present he could but coincide with Dr. Tyson in terming this case,
in accordance with the principal symptom present, one of hemialgia. ..."
2. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"The unilateral type, hysterical hemialgia, is less common than the regional form.
On the other hand pains are often observed which, upon superficial ..."
3. A Textbook of Nervous Diseases for Students and Practicing Physicians: In by Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen (1921)
"... or more rarely, one entire half of the body (hemialgia). When the patient on
account of hysterical pains which occur or are increased by every movement, ..."
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