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megrim (medicine)


megrim


1. A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

2. A fancy; a whim; a freak; a Humor; especially, in the plural, lowness of spirits. "These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies." (Ford)

3. <veterinary> A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.

Origin: OE. Migrim, migrene, F. Migraine, LL. Hemigrania, L. Hemicrania, hemicranium, Gr.; - half + skull. See Hemi- and Cranium, and cf. Hemicrania, Migraine.

<zoology> The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

Origin: Etymol. Uncertain.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Heterophobia (health)


The condition in which those whose love and lust are attached to persons of the Other sex are dreaded or feared.