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Definition of Migraine

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

Definition of Migraine

1. n. Same as Megrim.

Definition of Migraine

1. Noun. (pathology) A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Migraine

1. a severe headache [n -S]

Medical Definition of Migraine

1. An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, attacks are preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, usually with resultant prodromal sensory (especially ocular) symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows. Origin: Gr. Hemikrania = an affection of half of the head This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Migraine

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"90) reports a ease of Ophthalmoplegic migraine remarkable for its long duration. A woman, aged fifty-four years, was affected since the age of seven years ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"The fact that migraine is a disease which is especially likely to begin about the ... Still, it is most often the case that when migraine begins in early ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1873)
"ON migraine. BY S. CLIFFORD ALLBUTT. IN a recent number of the Practitioner, Dr. Anstie considers the nature and characters of migraine, not only with his ..."

4. 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 (1915)
"The patient still has attacks of migraine off and on. but there is no more involvement of the right side. These temporary conditions that Dr. Hunt has not ..."

5. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"It is known that in the ordinary attack of ophthalmic migraine there may occur various sensory or motor phenomena, among which anesthesias or paralyses are ..."

6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1903)
"migraine is an autointoxication which commonly finds expression in recurrent, ... In the treatment of migraine I assume the following hypotheses : 1. ..."

7. The Eye and Nervous System: Their Diagnostic Relations by William Campbell Posey, William Gibson Spiller (1906)
"migraine (Megrim, Hemicrania, or Sick-Headache) is a neurosis, characterized by pain in the fifth nerve, by affections of vision, and by gastric irritation. ..."

8. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"By migraine or hemicrania we mean a peculiar form of headache, coining on in separate attacks, usually unilateral, and associated with considerable ..."

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