migraine
pronunciation
How to pronounce migraine in British English:
UK [ˈmi:greɪn]
How to pronounce migraine in American English:
US [ˈmaɪgreɪn]
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- Noun:
- a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
Word Origin
- migraine
- migraine: [14] The earliest English forms of this word were mygrame and mygrane, but eventually it became institutionalized as megrim. Not until the 18th century did what is now the standard form, migraine, begin to appear on the scene, probably as a reborrowing of the word’s original source, French migraine. This came via late Latin hēmicrānia from Greek hēmikrāníā, literally ‘half-skull’ (krāníon is the source of English cranium [16], and is distantly related to English horn). The etymological idea underlying the word is of ‘pain in one side of the head’.=> cranium, horn
- migraine (n.)
- late 14c., megrim, from Old French migraigne (13c.), from vulgar pronunciation of Late Latin hemicrania "pain in one side of the head, headache," from Greek hemikrania, from hemi- "half" + kranion "skull" (see cranium). The Middle English form was re-spelled 1777 on the French model. Related: Migrainous.
Example
- 1. In 1966 , I started working with migraine patients .
- 2. Seventeen percent had a family history of migraine .
- 3. It has certainly eliminated my migraine .
- 4. Promotes the effectiveness of certain migraine drugs .
- 5. Migraine headaches are caused by abnormal blood flow to the brain .