hemicranian.
/hɛmɪˈkreɪnɪə/ Pathology.
1. Headache confined to one side of the head; megrim.
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1657 Physical Dict. Hemicrania, or hemicrane, a kind of head-ach, when but one side of the head is grieved.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 151 The bones help the Hemicrania.
a1801 W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. (1806) xvii. 93 The hemicrania, or pain of one half of the head.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life III. 157 I am..struggling with hemicrania and malaise.
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2. ‘Also a term used in Teratology to denote imperfect development or total defect of one side of the brain and its coverings’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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