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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.

Megrim


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
  • (n.) A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.
  • (n.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.
  • (n.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results show that added neutral and oxidized lipids, even at high rancidity levels, do not affect shear resistances measured by the Kramer shear-compression cell in non-formaldehyde forming species such as megrim and sardine, over the frozen storage period.
  • (2) The effect of added cod liver oil and oxidized cod liver oil on the measurement of texture in minced hake (Merluccius merluccius L.), megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis W.) and sardine (Sardina pilchardus W.) has been measured during frozen storage (-18 degrees C).

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