Meanings
plural sick headaches
- archaicA 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 1031 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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