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mi⋅graine

[mahy-greyn or, Brit., mee-]
–noun
an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.

Origin:
1325–75; ME < MF < LL hēmicrānia hemicrania; cf. megrim


mi⋅grain⋅oid, adjective
mi⋅grain⋅ous, adjective
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mi·graine   (mī'grān')   
n.  A severe recurring headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, characterized by sharp pain and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and visual disturbances. Also called megrim.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin hēmicrānia, from Greek hēmikrāniā : hēmi-, hemi- + krānion, head; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
mi·grain'ous adj.
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Word Origin & History

migraine 
1373, megrim, from O.Fr. migraigne (13c.), from vulgar pronunciation of L.L. hemicrania "pain in one side of the head, headache," from Gk. hemikrania, from hemi- "half" + kranion "skull" (see cranium). The M.E. form was re-spelled 1777 on Fr. model.
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Main Entry: mi·graine
Pronunciation: 'mI-"grAn, Brit often 'mE-
Function: noun
1 : a condition that is marked by recurrent usuallyunilateral severe headache often accompanied by nausea and vomiting and followed by sleep, that tends to occur in more than one member of a family, and that is of uncertain origin though attacks appearto be precipitated by dilatation of intracranial blood vessels
2 : an episode or attack of migraine migraines> called also sick headachemi·grain·ous /-"grA-n&s/ adjective
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migraine mi·graine (mī'grān')
n.
A severe recurring headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, that is characterized by sharp pain and is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and visual disturbances. Also called hemicrania, megrim, sick headache.

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