Megrim Definition
(in the plural) Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses, marked by a disturbance of equilibrium and abnormal gait and behaviour such as staggers or a sudden vertigo, sometimes followed by unconsciousness; the staggers. [from 17th c.]
Origin of Megrim
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From Middle French migraigne, from Vulgar Latin pronunciation of Late Latin hemicrania (“pain in one half of the head"), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hemikrania), from ἡμι- (hÄ“mi-, “hemi-, half") + κρανίον (kranion, “skull") (from whence also cranium). Compare migraine, hemicrania.
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Middle English migrem variant of migraine migraine
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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