Definition of Sinus headache

1. Noun. A headache resulting from congestion or infection in the paranasal sinuses.

Generic synonyms: Cephalalgia, Head Ache, Headache

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinus Headache

sinus arrest
sinus arrhythmia
sinus barotrauma
sinus bradycardia
sinus caroticus
sinus cavernosus
sinus circularis
sinus coronarius
sinus durae matris
sinus ethmoidales
sinus ethmoidales anteriores
sinus ethmoidales mediae
sinus ethmoidales posteriores
sinus frontalis
sinus headache (current term)
sinus histiocytosis
sinus intercavernosi
sinus lactiferi
sinus laryngeus
sinus lienis
sinus maxillaris
sinus nerve of Hering
sinus node
sinus node artery
sinus obliquus pericardii
sinus occipitalis
sinus of nail

Literary usage of Sinus headache

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

1. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"Frontal sinus headache.—The pain is chiefly frontal, usually throbbing and more intense in the early morning and often increased by the movements of the ..."

2. Text-book of Homeopathic Materia Medica by George Royal (1920)
"With the catarrhal condition of nose, etc., we have a frontal (sinus) headache with ... sinus headache ..."

3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"This time the seat of the trouble was found in the ethmoidal sinus. Headache was a prominent symptom, as in the first case. The same treatment was effective ..."

4. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"The rapid advances in methods of .investigation of the accessory sinus renders it important that special information be obtained if a frontal sinus headache ..."

5. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear: Medical and Surgical by William Lincoln Ballenger (1914)
"... than the sinus type, as they were induced, or aggravated, by the use of the eyes, and were relieved upon retiring for the night. sinus headache is not ..."

6. Pain: Its Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance by Richard Joseph Behan (1914)
"He also states that the frontal sinus headache is most severe at the "top of the head over the posterior part of the frontal bone." The original location of ..."

7. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"... of the ethmoid and is in every way similar in its mode of establishment to the frontal sinus headache just described, but it does not occur so often. ..."

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