Migraine

Noun

 * 1)  A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.
 * He had a headache so bad that he wished he was dead, but it was the sort of migraine that promised him he would continue to suffer but not die.
 * After consuming too much coffee everyday for six weeks, she got severe migraines that would last up until 47 minutes after her first cup of coffee.

Synonyms

 * hemicrania
 * megrim
 * sick headache

Related terms

 * hemicrania
 * megrim

Derived terms

 * migraineur
 * migrainous

Thesaurus
MS, ache, aching, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, angina, backache, bellyache, brain disease, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, 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

Etymology
1777 re-spelling (following French) of late 14th century megrim:, from 13th century  migraigne:, from  pronunciation of  hemicrania:, from  ἡμικρανία:, from ἡμι-: + κρανίον: (from whence also cranium:) &lt; a literal translation of Egyptian gs-tp 'headache'.

Cognate to megrim:, hemicrania:.

Translations

 * Chinese: 偏頭痛, 偏头痛
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: შაკიკი (shakiki)
 * German:
 * Greek: ημικρανία
 * Hungarian: migrén
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 偏頭痛 へんずつうkonzutsuu
 * Korean: 편두통
 * Neapolitan: mengrània
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: migrän
 * Turkish:

Anagrams

 * imaginer
 * regimina

Noun

 * 1) migraine

Etymology
From hemicrania, from  ἡμικρανία:.

Anagrams

 * imaginer