单词 | migraine |
释义 | migrainen. 1. A severe headache which characteristically affects only one side of the head and is typically preceded or accompanied by visual or other neurological disturbances and is associated with nausea and vomiting; (also) a syndrome characterized by the recurrence of such headaches. Cf. megrim n.1 1a, hemicrania n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head > migraine demigranec1400 megrim1440 emigrane1483 hemicrane?1550 hemicrania1657 migraine1777 sick headache1784 brow-ague1855 a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 636/27 (MED) Hoc oilinetum, Anglice, mygrayne. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 64 (MED) Þe juis of þis erbe and of cowesloppe..y-blawe in to the nose þrill for the migrane. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 4584 (MED) A feruent mygreyn was in þe ryȝt syde of hurre hedde. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 80v (MED) Þe Mygrayne, vbi Emygrayne. ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.viv I sayd that in my heed I had the megryne. ?1541 R. Copland Formularie of Helpes of Woundes & Sores in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Xj The seconde fourme is of mygrayne. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 651 The mind is..confounded by a migrane. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor sig. K6v/2 Migraine, a disease comming by fits, either in the right or left side of the head. 1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxiii, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Diseases of the Head,..Hemicrania or the Migrain. 1777 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 444 Madame de Jarnac had a migraine. 1837 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. x. 446 I am obliged to take to my bed by an unusual degree of migraine. 1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 101 Something like the ‘nerve-storm’ of migraine swept the medulla oblongata. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 107 Ophthalmic migraine—that is paroxysmal pain in the eye or temple. 1922 A. A. Stevens Pract. Med. 916 In a few instances recurrent facial paralysis seems to have been an accompaniment of migraine. 1946 Liberty 1 June 9/1 The heavily corseted..ladies who used to swoon all over the pages of Victorian literature,..to whom migraines and vapors were an accepted state of feminine being. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 23 Sept. p. viii/2 A 47-year-old asthenic and depressed patient, who had had migraine and Raynaud's disease for years. 1995 I. Rankin Let it Bleed (1996) xii. 85 Someone from her office phoned to say Miss Proffit had been taken ill with a migraine and had gone home. 2. figurative, esp. = headache n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or perplexity > a difficult or perplexing problem perplexity1589 perplex1652 tostication1748 aporia1893 headache1909 head-scratcher1938 migraine1942 ass-kicker1973 1942 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 11 340/1 There is likewise an administrative migraine of no mean proportions developing in the field of college personnel. 1961 R. Graves More Poems 5 Love is a universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. 1977 L. Sanders Second Deadly Sin ii. 29 I'd like a chance to stick Maitland's killer... On the other hand, I'm retired, and it's the Department's migraine, not mine. 1994 W. A. Bogart Courts & Country viii. 248 The politics of federalism, that great migraine of Canada. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. migraine attack n. ΚΠ 1952 A.M.A. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 67 31 In all the patients the migraine attack began when hostilities accumulated beyond the individual's capacity for tolerance of frustration. 1967 Brain 90 794 Samples of CSF taken from patients during a migraine attack..were assayed for pharmacologically active substances. 1996 Daily Tel. 27 Aug. 12/7 The sphenopalatine ganglion..which connects to the facial nerve that in turn controls the size of the blood vessels in the brain, whose dilation and subsequent constriction are responsible for migraine attacks. migraine aura n. ΚΠ 1970 O. Sacks Migraine iii. 96 Klee describes many forms of metamorphopsia occurring during migraine auras: distortion of contours, monocular diplopias, reduced discrimination of contrast. 1995 J. Banville Athena 218 Things around me shimmered and shook, edged with a garish flaring like a migraine aura. migraine drug n. ΚΠ 1993 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. d3/4 With its new migraine drug..Glaxo was able to show fewer lost work days and improved quality of life. 1998 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 14/2 Most of the newer migraine drugs have been licensed during the past 10 years. migraine headache n. ΚΠ 1943 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 8 283/2 It does not seem unreasonable to suggest some relationship between the father's ‘migraine’ headaches and the rivalrous situation in which he was involved. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie iii. 40 I got a codeine script from an old doctor by putting down a story about migraine headaches. 1995 C. Sagan Demon-haunted World vi. 105 Hallucinations can also be elicited..during epileptic seizures or migraine headaches. b. migraine-inducing adj. ΚΠ 1988 Current Anthropol. 29 776/2 We are..treated to a migraine-inducing segment [of film] taken from the car window on the way to the village. 1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 20/3 A flood of divinely molten guitars bank up, pinpricked by migraine-inducing bursts of feedback. C2. migraine equivalent n. [perhaps after German Migräneäquivalent (1897), itself after Dutch migraineaequivalent (1896)] any migraine symptom occurring independently of the headache (usually in persons known to have typical migraine). ΚΠ 1924 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 3 707 The outline given by Stoddart for epileptic equivalents may quite properly be employed in discussion of migraine equivalents. 1961 Brit. Jrnl. Dermatol. 73 419 It is possible that the skin may act as the site of an independent migraine equivalent or variant. 1970 O. Sacks Migraine ii. 54 We use the term ‘migraine equivalent’ to denote symptom-complexes which possess the generic features of migraine, but lack a specific headache component. 1989 Living Mag. Feb. 86 Sometimes migraine symptoms occur without the headache. This kind of attack is known as a ‘migraine equivalent’. Derivatives ˈmigraine-like adj. ΚΠ 1937 Tablet 23 Oct. 553/2 We feel quite anxious for this young man who has fierce migraine-like black-outs. 1964 L. C. Martin Clin. Endocrinol. (ed. 4) v. 189 Migraine-like headaches are common. 1984 ELH 51 849 Gradus exists in Kinbote's own head, a migraine-like double whom he would annihilate with a reflexive bear hug. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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