hemicrania

[ hem-i-krey-nee-uh ]

noun

1. pain in one side of the head.
2. migraine.

Other Words From

• hem·i·cran·ic [hem-i-, kran, -ik, -, krey, -nik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hemicrania¹

1650–60; < Late Latin hēmicrānia, hēmicrānium < Greek hēmikrā́nion pain on one side of the head ( hemi-, cranium )

Example Sentences

The constant presence of the headache, and for weeks at a time, immediately brought to Lesser’s mind a rare condition called hemicrania continua.

From New York Times

The doctor mentions several possible diagnoses: new daily persistent headache, migraine with aura, and hemicrania continua, a headache on one side of the head that never ends.

From The Guardian

More commonly it is frontal or general; occasionally we found it occipital, and still more rarely it was unilateral, constituting hemicrania.

From Project Gutenberg

If this was hemicrania continua, she would get better with this medication.

From New York Times

An instance of the first of those is the sympathy between the membranes of the alveolar processes of the jaws, and the membranes above or beneath the muscles about the temples in hemicrania.

From Project Gutenberg