Migraine, abdominal
An attack of abdominal pain that may be preceded by a migraine aura and accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and cognitive disturbance.
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- Migraine, classic
Migraine with aura. Accounts for no more than most 20% of migraines. See Migraine.
- Migraine, ocular
A migraine involving the eyes that results in distortion of visual images, accompanied or followed by headache. An ocular migraine usually affects only one eye at a time. Image distortion generally begins in the center of the image and then moves to one side. Images ‘gray out’ or look wavy, and sight may be lost […]
- Migraine, ophthalmic
Migraine involving the eyes but without headache. Migraine, due to a spasm of blood vessels in the brain, usually causes a headache. Flashes of light may appear as jagged lines or “heat waves” in one or both eyes and often last 10-20 minutes, sometimes without a headache. This is termed ophthalmic migraine, or migraine without […]
- Migraineur
A person who has migraine headache. Borrowed from the French.
- Migrainous neuralgia
Characterized by the absence of sustained periods of remission, chronic cluster headache may start with no past history of cluster headaches, or it may emerge several years after the patient has experienced an episodic pattern of cluster headaches. The episodic and acute forms of cluster headache may transform into one another, so it seems most […]