migraine (noun)

  • 71mi·graine — /ˈmaıˌgreın, Brit ˈmiːˌgreın/ noun, pl graines : a very bad headache [count] He suffers from migraines. a migraine headache/attack [noncount] He suffers from migraine …

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  • 72gustatory aura —    The term gustatory aura comes from the Latin noun gustus (taste) and the Greek noun aura (wind, breeze, smell). It used to denote a type of *aura that manifests itself in the form of a *gustatory hallucination or *illusion. The gustatory aura… …

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  • 73scintillating scotoma —    Also known as flittering scotoma, fortification spectrum, fortification figure, fortification of Vauban, geometrical spectrum, herringbone, Norman arch, telehopsia, and teichopsia. The term scintillating scotoma is indebted to the Latin noun… …

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  • 74trigger — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun VERB + TRIGGER ▪ press, pull, squeeze ▪ tighten on ▪ Her finger tightened on the trigger as she heard footsteps approaching. TRIGGER + NOUN …

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  • 75pain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Suffering Noun 1. pain, suffering, sufferance; hurt, cut; discomfort, painfulness; discomfort, malaise; nightmare; anguish, agony, misery, excruciation, torment, torture, rack; Weltschmerz; distress,… …

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  • 76megrim — megrim1 [ mi:grɪm] noun archaic 1》 (megrims) low spirits. 2》 a whim or fancy. Origin ME: var. of migraine. megrim2 [ mi:grɪm] noun a deep water flatfish of the European Atlantic coast. [Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis an …

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  • 77quizzer — quiz (kwĭz) tr.v. quizzed, quiz·zing, quiz·zes 1) To question (someone), especially closely or repeatedly: » Crick ... quizzed me minutely on the rate of visual flicker experienced in migraine auras (Oliver Sacks). 2) To test the knowledge of by… …

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  • 78Franz Kafka — Infobox Writer name = Franz Kafka caption = Photograph of Franz Kafka taken in 1906 birthdate = birth date|1883|7|3|df=y birthplace = Prague, Austria Hungary deathdate = death date and age |1924|6|3|1883|7|3|df=y deathplace = Kierling near Vienna …

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  • 79Tilia — taxobox name = Tilia image caption = Tilia platyphyllos regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots unranked ordo = Rosids ordo = Malvales familia = Malvaceae genus = Tilia genus authority = L. subdivision ranks =… …

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  • 80refractory — 1. adjective /ɹɪˈfɹæk.təɹ.i/ a) Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something. Mr. Weller knocked at the door, and after a pretty long interval occupied by the party without, in whistling a tune, and by the party within, in persuading a… …

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