What's the difference between headache and migraine?

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.

Migraine


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Megrim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (2) In contrast, in those subjects with chronic non-migrainous headache, the administration of piribedil had no effect.
  • (3) These findings do not support the theory that 5-HT1C receptor activation causes migraine.
  • (4) Because there were no interactions of time and type of migraine in either study, these results raise some questions about the existence of differential effectiveness of non-pharmacological treatment of menstrual vs non-menstrual migraine.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) Today's identification of four types and various sub-types of 5-HT receptors has revealed the extraordinary eclecticism of this transmitter which within migraine's clinical expression underscores that migraine sufferers are characterized by a marked sensitivity to all the drugs capable of acutely or chronically interacting with serotonin metabolism and binding with many serotonin receptor types and sub-types.
  • (7) Further studies are required to show whether these differences are real and, if so, whether they have any relevance for the pathogenesis of migraine attacks.
  • (8) We found that, compared with younger patients, older headache patients had more tension headache and less migraine headache.
  • (9) To investigate this hypothesis, 74 patients with frequent attacks of migraine were studied using 24-h continuous ambulatory electrocardiography to identify the presence of coronary vasospasm.
  • (10) Childhood migraine is probably commoner than this study indicates.
  • (11) A thromboembolism is sometimes predictable in individuals if there is migraine, visual disturbance, or certain predispositions seen in pregnancy such as toxemia or hypertension.
  • (12) Hemiplegic migraine was observed in a boy aged 16 years.
  • (13) Our findings support the importance of a hereditary factor in migraine but not an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern.
  • (14) The effects were assessed of delta'THC (the psychoactive component of cannabis) and CBD and DMHP-CBD (the non-psychomimetic components of marijuana derivatives) on 14C labelled serotonin release from normal platelets, when incubated with patient's plasma obtained during migraine attack.
  • (15) The findings suggest that migraine, major depression and anxiety disorders might share common predispositions.
  • (16) Migraine was diagnosed and he was treated with analgesic drugs.
  • (17) Patients having one or more attacks of migraine a week may need prophylactic treatment.
  • (18) Individuals experienced several groups of symptoms that might be considered to be features of migraine itself or of the post-migraine period or due to treatment.
  • (19) In this study, we attempted to assess the presence of bioamine-releasing factors in the plasma of patients with common, non-dietary migraine.
  • (20) An attack of migraine always benefits from ergotamine used occasionally and in limited dosage (not more than 6 mg daily or 10 mg per week).

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