Meanings
plural cluster headaches
- medicineAn extremely painful, cyclical and unilateral headache.
Synonyms: Raeder's syndrome, suicide headache
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn extremely painful, cyclical and unilateral headache.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna painful recurring headache associated with the release of histamine from cells
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
So called because such headaches tend to occur together, i.e. in clusters.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 叢集性頭痛 /丛集性头痛
- 叢集性頭痛 /丛集性头痛 (cóngjíxìng tóutòng)extremely painful headache
Dutch clusterhoofdpijn
- clusterhoofdpijnextremely painful headache
Finnish sarjoittainen päänsärky, itsemurhapäänsärky
- sarjoittainen päänsärkyextremely painful headache
- itsemurhapäänsärkyextremely painful headache
Norwegian Bokmål klasehodepine
- klasehodepineextremely painful headache
Cite this entry
cluster headache. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cluster%20headache
“cluster headache.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cluster%20headache. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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