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Sick headache   /sɪk hˈɛdˌeɪk/   Listen
Sick headache

noun
1.
A headache accompanied by nausea.
2.
A severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men.  Synonyms: hemicrania, megrim, migraine.






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"Sick headache" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cottage Dicksie met him. "Katie Dancing's mother is sick, and she has gone home. Poor Marion is all alone this morning, and half dead with a sick headache," said Dicksie. "But I told her, and she said she shouldn't mind the ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman

... well; she had a sick headache, and, half-lying down in an easy chair, she tried to keep perfectly still. Gemma wore a full yellow blouse, with a black leather belt round the waist; she too seemed exhausted, and was rather pale; there were dark rings round her eyes, but ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev

... of pain over my right eye, and a heavy head. A strong cup of coffee sets me up and I feel better; but as the morning wears on, especially if I am nervous, the weariness in my head returns. By luncheon time I am cross and upset. Often by six o'clock I have a severe sick headache. When I do not have a headache I am usually depressed; my brain feels like a lump of lead. And I know precisely the cause: It is that I do not give my nerve-centers sufficient rest. If I could spend the evenings—or half of them—quietly I should be well enough; but after I am tired out by a day's ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train

... a sick headache, Aunt Betsey?" said Ben after a little; he did not ask for information, but for the sake of saying something to break the ominous silence. He knew well Aunt Betsey always had a sick headache and was troubled when he ...
— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson

... help, I carried Juliette to her room, gave orders that she was not to be disturbed, and that every one must be told that the Countess was suffering from a sick headache. Then we came down to the dining-room, the canon ...
— The Message • Honore de Balzac

... fortune, and yet there was no possible way of proving it. I have never been able to meet or even think of that man since, without smarting as under a lash, and with a feeling of resentment and a sense of personal injury that never fail to give me a sick headache, if I allow my thoughts to dwell upon him. That isn't ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... amount if I fail to prove that I have the best remedy in the world for the speedy and permanent cure of *Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Liver Complaint, Sick Headache, Nervous Debility* and *Consumption*. I will gladly send a free bottle of this *wonderful* medicine, prepaid, to every reader of this paper, thus giving all sufferers a chance to test its merits, *free of cost*. Over 70,000 testimonial letters on file from living witnesses who have ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Sick headache" :   migraine, head ache, cephalalgia, headache, hemicrania, megrim



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