(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).
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).