What's the difference between cephalalgia and cephalalgic?
Cephalalgia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Cephalalgy
Example Sentences:
(1) Together with the few reports in the literature our cases outline a benign form of complicated coital cephalalgia, possibly resulting from ischaemic disturbances triggered by haemodynamic changes occurring in orgasm.
(2) Oral Mydocalm intermittent therapy was used in 113 patients suffering from myogenous cephalalgia.
(3) Methods of therapy include the use of vasoactive substances especially for vasomotor cephalalgia, immobilisation and local anesthesia in neuralgias, and psychopharmocological as well as psychotherapeutic aid in psychogenic complaints.
(4) Epidural blood patch (EBP) was performed for the treatment of severe postlumbar puncture cephalalgia in 118 young patients.
(5) The unilateral retro-orbital cephalalgia was constant.
(6) Cephalalgia (1st century AD), nostalgia (1678), neuralgia (18th century), causalgia (1872) were terms followed in the 1950's by Bonica's 'algology... a disease state of its own', addressed by ever-growing numbers of pain clinics, strongly foreshadowed by Leriche's douleur maladie in the 1930's.
(7) In a 1983 publication, the administration of a dopaminergic agonist has been proposed as a test able to distinguish migraine from other cephalalgia.
(8) While receiving the latter treatment, the patient developed persistent cephalalgia and vomiting, without signs of neurological focality.
(9) The origin of these may be extracranial (neuralgias in scar tissue and hematomas, neuralgiform headache as a result of injury to the cervical spine) as well as diffuse in the sense of vasomotr cephalalgia which are due to central regulation disorders of the circulation caused by psychogenic mechanisms and compensatory neurosis.
(10) Cephalalgias are divided into four syndromes and the most severe of these, migraine, presents several therapeutic applications.
(11) The dura mater has attracted considerable attention as an exquisitely sensitive tissue implicated as playing a role in various cephalalgias including vascular headache.
(12) A 23 year-old man presented with a rapidly evolving syndrome of cephalalgia , vomiting, mutism, disorders of gait, somnolence and dystonic movements.
(13) We have been interested in the prevalence of cephalalgias in a population of university students, as well as its intensity, frequency and duration parameters.
(14) These included cephalalgia, syncope, binocular photopsia phenomena with blurred vision, and an "electric-like" paroxysmal tingling of the hands.
(15) The practical interest to know this association is that somnambulism may be a real clinical marker of migrainous background that should be searched for in every patient presenting with chronic cephalalgia.
(16) The etiopathogenesis of headache (cephalalgia) is multifactorial and has not been definitely clarified yet.
(17) In AIDS patients a high suspicion of opportunistic infection of the CNS is needed as exemplified by two of the four patients who only presented cephalalgia.
(18) Exertional migraine, benign orgasmic cephalalgia, chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, cough headache, and "ice-pick" headache are treated with indomethacin.
(19) The most common clinical symptoms are high fever, cough, cephalalgia and myalgias.
(20) EBP was found to be a safe, effective method for treating severe postlumbar puncture cephalalgia, provided a proper diagnosis is made and there is no contraindication.
Cephalalgic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to, or affected with, headache.
(n.) A remedy for the headache.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-three cephalalgic outpatients (75 females, 18 males) were compared to a control group (24 females, 22 males) matched according to age.
(2) This phenomenon is called by the author "cephalalgic" spasm of head and neck muscles, which is rather characteristic of various headaches.