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sick headache

sick headache noun: a migraine.

Noun

sick headache (plural sick headaches)

  1. (archaic) A migraine.
    • Rheumatism—Palsy, curvature of the Spine, Chronic Diseases, Tic-doloureaux, Paralysis Tubercula of the brain, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, sick-headache.1846, editorial staff, “ELECTRICITY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 103
    • In very much this way Topsy’s training proceeded, for a year or two,—Miss Ophelia worrying herself, from day to day, with her, as a kind of chronic plague, to whose inflictions she became, in time, as accustomed, as persons sometimes do to the neuralgia or sick headache.1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Forms of sick headache

pluralsick headaches

Questions about sick headache

What does sick headache mean?
Sick headache means a migraine.
What part of speech is sick headache?
Sick headache is a noun.
What is the plural of sick headache?
The plural of sick headache is sick headaches.

Words near sick headache in the dictionary

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