cephalalgia

[ sef-uh-lal-juh, -jee-uh ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. headache ( def 1 ).

cephalalgia

/ -dʒə; ˌsɛfəˈlældʒɪə /

noun

1. a technical name for headache

Other Words From

• cepha·lalgic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cephalalgia¹

First recorded in 1540–50; cephal- + -algia

Example Sentences

If you will only call a headache a Cephalalgia, it acquires dignity at once, and a patient becomes rather proud of it.

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Particularly, that form of cephalalgia called sick headache is apt to appear, in the periodical form, through several generations.

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An Italian physician, Fantoni, has tried it in cephalalgia, meningitis rheumatica and in ischias.

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The local symptoms are sometimes preceded by rigor, followed by fever, cephalalgia, and pains in the neck and occiput.

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In other cases there is intense cephalalgia, nervous irritability, restlessness, and even delirium.

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