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Definition of Sick headache

1. Noun. A headache accompanied by nausea.

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

Medical Definition of Sick headache

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 Sick headache

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

1. 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 (1874)
"Bromide of Potassium in sick headache. Caffeine hi sick Headache. Cherry Laurel Water as a Vehicle. Deep Infections of Chloroform. Chloral anil chloroform. ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1873)
"Like so many other physicians who have written valuable monographs, Dr. Edward Liveing has been for years a sufferer from sick-headache, and he has also had ..."

3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lunsford Pitts Yandell (1840)
"The use of tea and coffee is almost universal, and it would probably be difficult to find a subject of sick-headache who was not in the habit of drinking ..."

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