Migraine

migraine
    n 1: a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more
         frequently in women than men [syn: {migraine}, {megrim},
         {sick headache}, {hemicrania}]
    

Megrim \Me"grim\, n. [OE. migrim, migrene, F. migraine, LL.
   hemigrania, L. hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. ?; ?- half + ?
   skull. See {Hemi-} and {Cranium}, and cf. {Hemicrania},
   {Migraine}.]
   1. A kind of sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and
      confined to one side of the head; now more commonly called
      {migraine headache} or {migraine}.
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   2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural,
      lowness of spirits.
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            These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies.
                                                  --Ford.
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   3. pl. (Far.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded
      sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of
      blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy. --Youatt.
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migraine \mi*graine"\, n. [F. migraine, LL. hemigrania, L.
   hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr. "hmikrani`a; "hmi- half +
   krani`on skull. See {Hemi-} and {Cranium}, and cf.
   {Hemicrania}, {Migraine}.]
   1. A kind of intense sick or nervous headache, usually
      periodical and confined to one side of the head; called
      also {migraine headache}. Same as {megrim}. --
      {Mi*grain"ous}, a.
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      colic, collywobbles, earache, emotional disorder, epilepsy,
      falling sickness, fret, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, gnawing, gripe,
      gripes, gut-ache, headache, heartburn, hemicrania, herpes zoster,
      ischialgia, megrim, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder,
      neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, odontalgia, organic psychosis,
      otalgia, palsy, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism,
      pyrosis, radiculitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shaking palsy,
      shingles, sick headache, spastic paralysis, splitting headache,
      stomachache, the jerks, throbbing pain, tic douloureux, toothache,
      toxic psychosis