Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to cephalalgia or headache.
  • noun A medicine for headache.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Relating to, or affected with, headache.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine Relating to, or affected with, headache.
  • noun A remedy for the headache.

Etymologies

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Latin cephalalgicus, from Ancient Greek.

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Examples

  • He had had another terrible crisis in which he had been ill for more than a month with cephalalgic fever, and he had grown very thin.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

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