megrim

n. 周期性偏头痛, 忧郁, 沮丧, 幻想, 怪念头 [医] 偏头痛

发音

UK /ˈmiːɡɹɪm/

词形变化

megrims 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A headache; a migraine.

    古体
  2. 2.

    A fancy, a whim, a caprice.

    古体
  3. 3.

    See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).

    复数形式

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.

  4. 1.

    A flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, a Cornish sole, sail-fluke, witch or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

migraine hemicrania sick headache

上位词 2

headache cephalalgia

词源

Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium). Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.

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