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Definition of Megrim

1. Noun. A severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men.

Definition of Megrim

1. n. A kind of sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

2. n. The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

Definition of Megrim

1. Noun. (rare) A headache; a migraine. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

2. Noun. (context: in the plural) Depression, low spirits, unhappiness. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

3. Noun. (rare) A fancy, a whim, a caprice. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

4. Noun. (context: in the plural) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

5. Noun. A type of European deep water flatfish, ''Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis''; the whiff or sail-fluke. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Megrim

1. a migraine [n -S] - See also: migraine

Medical Definition of Megrim

1. 1. A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head. 2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; especially, in the plural, lowness of spirits. "These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies." (Ford) 3. A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy. Origin: OE. Migrim, migrene, F. Migraine, LL. Hemigrania, L. Hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr.; - half + skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine. The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa). Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Megrim

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"Bromides in megrim.—Charcot recommends in migraine (ophthalmic form) the following prescription : fy ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on Disease in Children by Eustace Smith (1889)
"CHAPTER VI megrim megrim, or migraine, is a functional nervous disorder which gives rise to severe headache and other nervous phenomena, and often to nausea ..."

3. Headache and Other Morbid Cephalic Sensations by Harry Campbell (1894)
"PERIODICAL SICK HEADACHE megrim. CLASSICAL megrim, by which I mean megrim as described by Liveing, though not uncommon among the educated classes, ..."

4. A Treatise on the theory and practice of medicine by John Syer Bristowe (1879)
"Causation—megrim appears in a large number of ... megrim, or a condition (indistinguishable fixi may arise also in the course of an ordinary catarrh, ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"We can simply say that megrim is of the nature of a nerve-storm, and that this ... I can remember but one pronounced case of ophthalmic megrim ; possibly, ..."

6. The Neuroses of Development: Being the Morrison Lectures for 1890 by Thomas Smith Clouston (1891)
"megrim. megrim is a disease of extraordinary interest to the student of the ... Like asthma and many forms of neuralgia, 1 On megrim, Sick-Headache, ..."

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