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cephalalgy

cephalalgy is the dated form of cephalalgia.

Meaning of cephalalgia

Noun

cephalalgia (countable and uncountable, plural cephalalgias)

  1. A pain in the head; headache.
    • The pungent pain, dyspnœa, cephalalgia, redness of the face, pulsations of the heart, strong and rapid, the pulse full and vibrating, induced M. Peyrade, then attached to that hospital, to practise blood-letting in the arm. It was followed with marked relief.1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 207
    Synonyms:
    headache

Forms of cephalalgy

pluralcephalalgies

Origin of cephalalgy

From cephal- + -algy. From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”).

Questions about cephalalgy

What is cephalalgy the dated form of?
Cephalalgy is the dated form of cephalalgia.

Words near cephalalgy in the dictionary

  1. cephalalgiaphobia
  2. cephalalgias
  3. cephalalgic
  4. cephalalgics
  5. cephalalgies
  6. cephalalgy
  7. cephalanthin
  8. cephalanthins
  9. cephalaria
  10. cephalaspidean
  11. cephalaspideans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cephalalgy (page history and authors); cephalalgia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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