a pounding headache

  • 1headache — head|ache [ˈhedeık] n 1.) a pain in your head ▪ I had a really bad headache , and couldn t go to work. a splitting/pounding headache (=a very bad headache) 2.) informal a problem that is annoying or difficult to deal with >headachy adj ▪ a… …

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  • 2pounding — /ˈpaʊndɪŋ/ (say pownding) adjective 1. throbbing: a pounding headache. –noun 2. a beating. 3. a severe downturn in fortune: the business took a pounding in the recession …

  • 3Headache attributed to a substance or its withdrawal — Classification and external resources ICD 9 339.3 Headaches can be attributed to many different substances. Some of these include alcohol, NO, carbon monoxide poisoning, cocaine, and MSG. Chronic …

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  • 4headache — [n1] difficulty, problem annoyance, bane, bother, dilemma, frustration, hassle, hindrance, inconvenience, nuisance, pain in the neck*, pest, predicament, quagmire, trouble, vexation, worry; concepts 674,677 headache [n2] migraine cephalalgia,… …

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  • 5headache — noun 1 pain in the head ADJECTIVE ▪ bad, chronic, severe, terrible ▪ mild, slight ▪ dull ▪ …

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  • 6pounding — noun Pounding is used before these nouns: ↑bass, ↑beat, ↑headache, ↑heart, ↑rain, ↑rhythm, ↑surf …

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  • 7Toxic headache — A toxic headache is the least common type of vascular headache that usually comes from a fever from acute illnesses such as measles, mumps, pneumonia and tonsillitis. Common hazards in our environment also cause toxic headaches with exposure.… …

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  • 8Demons (The X-Files) — Demons The X Files episode The Cigarette Smoking Man with Samantha Mulder Episode no …

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  • 9List of fiction employing parallel universes — The following is a list of fiction employing parallel universes or alternate realitiesBooks*Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, wrote The Blazing World (1666), a book far ahead of its time, in which the heroine passes through a portal near… …

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  • 10stress — stressless, adj. stresslessness, n. /stres/, n. 1. importance or significance attached to a thing; emphasis: to lay stress upon good manners. 2. Phonet. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of… …

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