migraine
Collocations
5(noun.)
ADJ
severe
VERB + MIGRAINE
get, have, suffer from
bring on, trigger
Stress and lack of sleep brought on another migraine that lasted all day.
MIGRAINE + NOUN
headache | attack
Definitions
noun
A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.
He had a headache so bad that he wished he was dead, but it was the sort of migraine that promised him he would continue to suffer but not die.
After consuming too much coffee every day for six weeks, she got severe migraines that would last up until 47 minutes after her first cup of coffee.
A neurological condition characterised by such headaches.
Syncope is estimated to occur in bouts of headache in approximately 5% of adult patients with migraine.
Migraine is characterized by recurrent unilateral, often pulsating, headaches, worsened by physical activity and associated with nausea, photophobia and phonophobia.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a severe recurring vascular headache
- megrim
- hemicrania
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6He had a headache so bad that he wished he was dead, but it was the sort of migraine that promised him he would continue to suffer but not die.
WiktionaryAfter consuming too much coffee every day for six weeks, she got severe migraines that would last up until 47 minutes after her first cup of coffee.
WiktionaryIt was in 1976, during our first family holiday to Disneyland, California, that my family learned the difference between a headache and a migraine.
WiktionaryI have a migraine.
Tatoeba · #320325For years, Tom suffered from migraine headaches.
Tatoeba · #682105The causes of migraine are still not known.
Tatoeba · #2754958