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migraine (ˈmiːgreɪn, ˈmaɪ-, formerly as Fr. migrɛn) [a. F. migraine: see megrim.] = megrim1 1, hemicrania. Also attrib. and fig.
1777H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 444 Madame de Jarnac had a migraine. 1837Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life I. x. 446, I am obliged to take to my bed by an unusual degree of migraine. 1892[see day n. 19]. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 107 Ophthalmic migraine—that is paroxysmal pain in the eye or temple. 1937Tablet 23 Oct. 553/2 We feel quite anxious for this young man who has fierce migraine-like black-outs. 1961R. Graves More Poems 5 Love is a universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 33/2 The common concept of migraine is of a syndrome in which severe unilateral periodic headache is accompanied by nausea or vomiting and preceded by a warning which is usually visual. 1971‘D. Shannon’ Ringer (1972) ix. 149 He's not at all well. A migraine headache. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem x. 72 Taking a pill for a mild migraine attack. |