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Definition of Hemicrania
1. Noun. A severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men.
Definition of Hemicrania
1. n. A pain that affects only one side of the head.
Definition of Hemicrania
1. Noun. (pathology) A headache affecting one side of the head. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Hemicrania
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemicrania
Literary usage of Hemicrania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"Dr. Turenne supposes hemicrania cavernous sinus, causing pressure 01 fifth
nerve.23 He considers the re head backwards, to arise from the eA protrusion of ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1872)
"Quinine and Digitalis in hemicrania.—M. Debout has obtained favourable results
from the combination of quinine with digitalis in the treatment of migraine. ..."
3. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine; a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"hemicrania.—The pain here is limited to one side of the head, but it may extend
... hemicrania, migraine, or megrim, has been explained as a neurosis of the ..."
4. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal by Hugh L Hodge, Franklin Bache, Charles D Meigs, Benjamin Hornor Coates, R La Roche (1831)
"hemicrania.—This disease is now generally considered to he a neuralgia, either
continued or intermittent. The appellation neuralgia, however, ..."
5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1869)
"[hemicrania, or sick-headache as it is generally called, is of a dull and sickening
... Since a stomach derangement usually accompanies the hemicrania, ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1902)
"He attempts to derive corroborative evidence from migraine or hemicrania in the
male, and publishes extracts from the diary of a gentleman subject to these ..."
7. Handbook of the Diseases of the Nervous System by James Ross (1885)
"The predisposing causes of hemicrania are inheritance, generally from mother to
... hemicrania consists of paroxysms of headache which are separated by free ..."
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