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

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

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Poisoning is manifested by weakness, cephalalgia, vomiting, pallor, general anemia, lassitude, and local paralysis.

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Published in the journal Headache, their study compared the number of "cephalalgia attacks" -- headaches of all kinds -- experienced by 201 male professional divers and a control group of healthy men who didn't dive.

From Reuters

These were pavor nocturnus, sudden sweats, heat, neuralgia, sialorrhea, periodical cephalalgia and, above all, vertigo; and these symptoms were not always accompanied by unconsciousness nor followed by coma.

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In the summer of 1873 had a very severe attack of cephalalgia, which, judging from his subsequent history, was probably of rheumatic origin.

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