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Sick headache

noun

A headache accompanied by nausea.

A severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men. Synonyms: hemicrania, megrim, migraine.

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"Sick headache" Quotes from Famous Books

... a sick headache. Can't you see the arteries throbbing under the almost hairless skin of my temples—the transparent, bluish skin that denotes a thoroughbred? It's atrocious! The veins on my forehead are like writhing ...

— Barks and Purrs • Colette Willy, aka Colette

... welcome the approach of day found him limp and rumpled and bloodshot, and with a mind still vacant of resource. He rose and looked forth unrejoicingly on blinded windows, an empty street, and the grey daylight dotted with the yellow lamps. There are mornings when the city seems to awake with a sick headache; this was one of them; and still the twittering reveille of the sparrows stirred ...

— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... a sick headache, Aunt Betsey?" said Ben after a little; he did not ask for information, but for the sake of saying something to break the ominous silence. He knew well Aunt Betsey always had a sick headache and was troubled when he had ...

— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson

... and the babel of tongues broke loose again. Everyone asked for Veronica, wanted to sit beside her and tell her what a wonderful genius she was, but she was nowhere to be found. Grandmother Wing came in presently and said that Veronica had slipped out and gone home because she had a sick headache and wanted to ...

— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey

... as common in cases of pregnancy as "morning sickness." It may be from determination of blood to the head, from constipation or indigestion, constitutional "sick headache," from neuralgia, from a cold, from rheumatism. Correct living will prevent much headache trouble; and where this does not answer the purpose, rubbing and making magnetic passes over the head by the hand of some ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... were robbed of a fortune, and yet there was no possible way of proving it. I have never been able to meet or even think of that man since, without smarting as under a lash, and with a feeling of resentment and a sense of personal injury that never fail to give me a sick headache, if I allow my thoughts to dwell upon ...

— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

Words linked to "Sick headache" : head ache, megrim, hemicrania, headache, cephalalgia