hemicrania

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A headache affecting one side of the head. countable,uncountable
    — Gods, gods, why do you punish me? Yes, no doubt it is upon me again, again this terrible, invincible affliction … this hemicrania which grips half the head with pain … without remedy, without escape … I must try not to move my head. …

词形变化

hemicranias plural hemicrany alternative,dated

词源

From Late Latin hemicrania (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (from whence also cranium).
Cognate to megrim and migraine, which also derive from the Latin.
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