cluster headache

noun

: a headache that is characterized by severe pain in the eye or temple and tends to recur in a series of attacks

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Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined above

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Medical Definition

cluster headache

noun
: a headache that is characterized by severe unilateral pain in the eye or temple, affects primarily men, and tends to recur in a series of attacks

called also histamine cephalalgia, histamine cephalgia, Horton's syndrome

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