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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The term comes from hemicrania, which is a Greek work that means "half of the head." ❋ Unknown (2009)
A remarkable circumstance attends this kind of hemicrania, viz. that it recurs by periods like those of intermittent fevers, as explained in the ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) The watering eyes bring to mind cluster headaches, paroxysmal hemicrania, and migraine. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Another name for migraine headaches is hemicrania, which reflects the fact that they usually affect one side of the head. ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
No trial was made in cases of angio paralytic hemicrania, since in this affection the drug would be physiologically contraindicated. ❋ Various (N/A)
Periodicity has been observed in stammering (a six-weekly period in one case), and notably in hemicrania or migraine, by Harry Campbell, Osler, etc. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
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. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)
In Brazil, a decoction of the leaves steeped in vinegar is said to relieve hemicrania. ❋ Unknown (1863)
I didn't remember it and went to Google to read more about it: hemicrania continua. ❋ M.D. By LISA SANDERS (2012)
If this was hemicrania continua, she would get better with this medication. ❋ M.D. By LISA SANDERS (2012)
It was a comment I had made to another reader, noting that the patient didn't require surgery to get better, that helped him focus on hemicrania continua as the cause of this patient's pain. ❋ M.D. By LISA SANDERS (2012)
A hemicrania continua headache will sometimes respond to other anti-inflammatory drugs - but response to indomethacin, in particular, is a defining characteristic of the syndrome. ❋ M.D. By LISA SANDERS (2012)
There is however some difficulty in detecting the delinquent tooth in this case, as in hemicrania, unless by its apparent decay, or by some previous information of its pain having been complained of; because the pain of the tooth ceases, as soon as the exertions of insanity commence. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
