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Megrim   Listen
noun
Megrim  n.  
1.
A kind of sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head; now more commonly called migraine headache or migraine.
2.
A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. "These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies."
3.
pl. (Far.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.


Megrim  n.  (Zool.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).





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... Dr. Monro asserted in his lectures, that he cured the hemicrania, or megrim, by a strong vomit, and a brisk purge immediately after it. This method succeeds best if opium and the bark are given in due quantity after the operation of the cathartic; and with still more certainty, if bleeding in small quantity is premised, where the pulse will admit of ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin


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