‖ hemicrania Path.
(hɛmɪˈkreɪnɪə)
[L.: see prec.]
1. Headache confined to one side of the head; megrim.
| 1657 [see prec.]. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 151 The bones help the Hemicrania. a 1801 W. Heberden Comm. xvii. (1806) 93 The hemicrania, or pain of one half of the head. 1872 Geo. Eliot in J. W. Cross Life III. 157, I am..struggling with hemicrania and malaise. |
2. ‘Also a term used in Teratology to denote imperfect development or total defect of one side of the brain and its coverings’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).