It affects about ten per cent of the population and comes from the Greek word hemicrania, meaning half the head; this refers to the often one-sided excruciating pain. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The term comes from hemicrania, which is a Greek work that means "half of the head.". From Wordnik.com. [WALL STREET FIGHTER - Business News and Money Tips for Men] Reference
A remarkable circumstance attends this kind of hemicrania, viz. that it recurs by periods like those of intermittent fevers, as explained in the. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Another name for migraine headaches is hemicrania, which reflects the fact that they usually affect one side of the head. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
No trial was made in cases of angio paralytic hemicrania, since in this affection the drug would be physiologically contraindicated. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
It is superior to anything else when inhaled in so-called angio-spastic hemicrania, giving rapid relief in the individual paroxysms and prolonging the intervals between the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
As inflaming the teeth by the use of mercury is of use in some kinds of hemicrania. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
In Brazil, a decoction of the leaves steeped in vinegar is said to relieve hemicrania. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The natural cure of hemicrania is the accumulation of sensorial power during the rest or sickness of the patient. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Treatment of hemicrania continua by occipital nerve stimulation with a bion device: long-term follow-up of a crossover study. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The dens sapientiæ, or last tooth of the upper jaw, frequently decays first, and gives hemicrania over the eye on the same side. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The late Dr. Monro asserted in his lectures, that he cured the hemicrania, or megrim, by a strong vomit, and a brisk purge immediately after it. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Megrim is from Middle English migrem, from Middle French migraine, modification of Late Latin hemicrania, "pain in one side of the head," from Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
An instance of the first of those is the sympathy between the membranes of the alveolar processes of the jaws, and the membranes above or beneath the muscles about the temples in hemicrania. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Researchers found that within a range of six to 21 months after implantation of the bion, five of the six patients reported sufficient benefit to recommend the device to other patients with hemicrania continua. From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
Besides the affections above described, the stomach is liable, like many other membranes of the body, to torpor without consequent inflammation: as happens to the membranes about the head in some cases of hemicrania, or in general head-ach. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Thus in the hemicrania the torpor generally commences in a diseased tooth, and the membranes about the temple, and also those of the stomach become torpid by direct synchronous sympathy; and pain of the head, and sickness supervene; but no fever or quickness of pulse. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Thus when any acrid material, as snuff or lime, falls into the eye, pain and inflammation and heat are produced from the excess of stimulus; but violent hunger, hemicrania, or the clavus hystericus, are attended with coldness of the extremities, and defect of circulation. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
This pain of the ear, like hemicrania, is frequently the consequence of association with a diseased tooth; in that case the ether should be applied to the cheek over the suspected tooth, or a grain of opium and as much camphor mixed together and applied to the suspected tooth. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The study measured the effectiveness of nerve stimulation in six patients aged 37 to 64 with hemicrania continua, a rare headache disorder defined by the International Headache Society as a form of chronic daily headache in which patients have 15 days or more of headache per month. From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
One patient, whom I lately saw, and who had been five or six days much troubled with this intermission of a pulsation of his heart, and who had hemicrania with some fever, was immediately relieved from them all by losing ten ounces of blood, which had what is termed an inflammatory crust on it. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
If this experiment is again tried in odontalgia, or hemicrania, the painful membrane of the tooth or head should be included between the south and north poles of a horse-shoe magnet, or between the contrary poles of two different magnets, that the magnetism may be accumulated on the torpid part. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
A criterion to distinguish fever from other diseases, which are owing to the torpor of some parts of the system, as paresis, and hemicrania. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
& hemicrania labQranf. nam caput roborat. From Wordnik.com. [Aromatvm, et simplicivm aliqvot medicamentorvm apvd Indos nascentivm historia: primùm quidem lusitanica linqua dialogikōs conscripta, à D. Graçia ab Horto, proregis Indiæ medico: deinde latino sermone in epitomen contracta & iconibus ad viuum expressis, locupletioribusq́ annotatiunculis illustrata à Carolo Clvsio Atrebate] Reference
Periods of gout, pleurisy, of fevers with arterial debility, and with arterial strength, Periods of rhaphania, of nervous cough, hemicrania, arterial hæmorrhages, hæmorrhoids, hæmoptoe, epilepsy, palsy, apoplexy, madness. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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