hemicranius

hemicranius [LL] , affecting half the head, of migraine. b (as sb. m.) sufferer from migraine. c (as sb. m., f., or n.) migraine. d (as sb. m.) worm or maggot (thought to cause migraine). e (by misinterp.) plant (? wound-wort). cum sit fumositas grossa ‥ petit cerebrum ‥ et aliquando emigraneam vel aliam capitis passionem pessimam excitat Bart. Angl. IV 5; dolor emigraneus concomitatur Gilb. II 117. 2; emigranea passio dicitur que medietatem cranei sive capitis occupat SB 19; percussus in emigranea passione miserabili, continua vertigine capitis et importabili angustia torquebatur NLA II 722. b curat ‥ vertiginosos, ‥ cephalargicos, emigraneos, et qui ita vexantur ex capitis motionibus Gilb. I 44. 1. c emigraneum GlH E 247 (v. 1 dolor 1); Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 200 (v. d infra); homo habet emigraneam et patitur quandoque paralesim unius partis et non alterius Ps.-Ric. Anat. 25; de dolore capitis quem emigraneam appellant M. Scot Phys. 11; dolor medie partis capitis, sc. dextre aut sinistre, dicitur emigranea, aut dolor unius partis capitis; et dicitur †monopogia, sc. anterioris vel posterioris partis capitis dolor Gilb. II 89. 1; alius est [dolor] qui comprehendit unam duarum partium cerebri, sc. medietatem; et dicitur emigranea, quasi semicranealis Gad. 69v. 1; 1407 per ferventem emigranie infirmitatem visu oculorum ‥ orbatus Reg. Durh. I 23; mygrene, emigranea PP; the emygrane, emigraneus CathA. d emigraneus, i. vermis capitis GlH E 247; emigranus, flœscmaþu Ælf. Gl. 122; emicraneus, vermis in capite, unde et dicimus dolorem in capite emicraneum esse Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 200 (v. c supra); warbote, worme, emigranus, ‥ boa PP; nomina vermium: ‥ hic †emigramus [l. emigranius] est vermis capitis WW. e emigrani, uon uyrt Gl. Durh..

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