cephalalgia
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- cephalalgic adjective
Etymology
Origin of cephalalgia
Example Sentences
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She suffered intense cephalalgia and other signs of meningitis; despite vigorous treatment she lost consciousness and died shortly after the operation.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
An Italian physician, Fantoni, has tried it in cephalalgia, meningitis rheumatica and in ischias.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
In the summer of 1873 had a very severe attack of cephalalgia, which, judging from his subsequent history, was probably of rheumatic origin.
From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.
The larvae develop and multiply with great rapidity, and sometimes gain admission into the frontal sinus, causing intense cephalalgia, and even death.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
It is quite evident, admitting that such a change is capable of producing an amount of cerebral irritation sufficient to develop well-marked cephalalgia, that the latter must of necessity be within certain limits continuous.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various
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