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sick headache en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A migraine.
    • In very much this way Topsy’s training proceeded, for a year or two,—Miss Ophelia worrying herself, from day to day, with her, as a kind of chronic plague, to whose inflictions she became, in time, as accustomed, as persons sometimes do to the neuralgia or sick headache. 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin:
    • Rheumatism—Palsy, curvature of the Spine, Chronic Diseases, Tic-doloureaux, Paralysis Tubercula of the brain, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, sick-headache. 1846, editorial staff, “ELECTRICITY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 103:

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