Megrim Definition

mēgrĭm
noun
Webster's New World
A whim, fancy, or fad.
Webster's New World
Depression or unhappiness.
American Heritage Medicine
Low spirits; the blues.
Webster's New World

(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.]

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Noun

Singular:
megrim
Plural:
megrims

Origin of Megrim

  • 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

  • Origin unknown.

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