What's the difference between headache and hemicrania?

Headache


Definition:

  • (n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
  • (2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (3) In contrast, in those subjects with chronic non-migrainous headache, the administration of piribedil had no effect.
  • (4) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
  • (5) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
  • (6) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (7) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (8) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.
  • (9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (10) Both the use of analgesics and the frequency of headache showed a significant increase for patients with post-traumatic headache when compared with a "control group" of 41 patients with unchanged headache and when compared with all patients with headache before the trauma.
  • (11) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
  • (12) These data suggest that the mechanism leading to a migraine attack can be operative 8-48 h before the headache begins and is possibly dopaminergically mediated.
  • (13) We found that, compared with younger patients, older headache patients had more tension headache and less migraine headache.
  • (14) The levels of E-type prostaglandins were measured in patients with facial and headaches.
  • (15) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
  • (16) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
  • (17) Childhood headache attacks resulted to be less frequent, less severe and with a shorter duration than in adult patients.
  • (18) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (19) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
  • (20) Furthermore, 97.6%, 95.7% and 94.8% of the subjects reported that depression, headache and sleep disturbances, respectively, had disappeared during therapy.

Hemicrania


Definition:

  • (n.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical characteristics of headaches were those described in chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.
  • (2) 21 patients showed certain changes in the clinical picture and course of hemicrania itself: enhancement of paroxysms or transformation of one form of hemicrania to the other one, more severe (e.g.
  • (3) The results obtained with this method on 28 different patients, six of with were normal subjects, while the remaining 22 were suffering: six from cerebro vascular disease, four from epilepsy, three from TIA, six from dementia, two from depressive syndrome and one from hemicrania are reported.
  • (4) Five patients had hemicranias, and all were homolateral to the endarterectomy.
  • (5) This variety of headache, not previously reported, was quite similar to the "hemicrania continua" except for its localization.
  • (6) Cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania are assumed to be so closely related that they from a classification point of view have been grouped together under the superstructure: cluster headache syndrome.
  • (7) Both episodic and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania respond well to treatment with indomethacin.
  • (8) The finding of a female preponderance, like that in chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, is a new observation.
  • (9) Paroxysmal headaches often occur in benign headache disorders such as episodic cluster headache, chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH) and episodic paroxysmal hemicrania.
  • (10) Episodic paroxysmal hemicrania (EPH) is a rare disorder characterized by discrete bouts of hemicranial headache separated by headache-free remissions.
  • (11) It seems unlikely that a time pattern that has remained unchanged for 17 years will become continuous, as in HC, in the future, and thus it is possible that our patient represents a case of a new type of headache that we propose to name "Hemicrania Episodica."
  • (12) The autonomic involvement from a clinical point of view, was clearly less pronounced than that of other unilateral headaches, such as cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.
  • (13) Problems related to the need of certification of ability to work for those affected by cervical hemicrania have been analysed.
  • (14) Hemicrania continua (HC) is a headache entity completely responsive to indomethacin.
  • (15) Superimposition of essential hypertension or atherosclerosis was also coupled with changes in the course of hemicrania, in particular by an increase of the period of cephalgia and appearance of constant headaches.
  • (16) The pre-continuous phase of hemicrania continua may thus masquerade as episodic cluster headache by reason of its intermittency and "clustering".
  • (17) This conclusion has precluded the possibility of paroxysmal hemicrania having an episodic counterpart.
  • (18) Facial temperature was measured thermographically and pupillary diameter recorded photographically during and between episodes of headache and during spontaneous remission of headache in a patient with chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH).
  • (19) The remitting form of HC must be distinguished from other cyclical headache disorders such as episodic paroxysmal hemicrania and episodic cluster headache.
  • (20) Four cases clinically compatible with "Hemicrania Continua" are described.

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