| UNDRO | United Nations Disaster Relief Organization |
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| WMR | work metabolic rate; World Medical Relief |
| BAM | basilar artery migraine; bilateral augmentation mammoplasty; brachial artery mean [pressure]; |
| CM | California mastitis [test]; calmodulin; capreomycin; carboxymethyl; cardiac murmur; cardiac muscle; ... |
| FHM | familial hemiplegic migraine; fathead minnow [cells] |
| migraine, common | Migraine without aura. The most frequent type, accounting for about 80-85% of migraines. See migraine. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| classic migraine | A form of hemicrania migraine preceded by a scintillating scotoma (teichopsia). (05 Mar 2000) |
| common migraine | A form of migraine headache without the visual prodrome, that is not limited on one side of the head but nevertheless is recognizable as migraine because of the stereotyped course; the tendency to nausea, photophobia, and phonophobia; and the relief produced by sleep. (05 Mar 2000) |
| complicated migraine | A migraine attack during which an infarction of tissue takes place. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Harris' migraine | Recurrent facial pain and headache, more common in men than in women. Synonym: Harris' migraine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemiplegic migraine | A form associated with transient hemiplegia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ocular migraine | Vasospastic infarction of tissue in or about the eye during an otherwise typical migraine; a form of complicated migraine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ophthalmoplegic migraine | A form of migraine associated with paralysis of the extraocular muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fulgurating migraine | Migraine characterised by its abrupt commencement and the severity of the episode. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign headache | A benign form of headache that results from the painful spasm (muscle tightness) and inflammation of muscles of the head and neck. Tension headache is one of the most common forms of headache. Spasm and contraction of the head and neck muscles may occur in response to fatigue, overuse, eye strain, excessive smoking, stress, anxiety or depression. Sleeping in an abnormal position or prolonged work involving immobilisation of the neck in one position (typing, computers, etc.) are considered common triggers. Exercising and stretching the muscles of the head and neck can reduce the occurrence of muscle tension headaches. (27 Sep 1997) |
| bilious headache | <disease> An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, attacks are preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, usually with resultant prodromal sensory (especially ocular) symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows. Origin: Gr. Hemikrania = an affection of half of the head (18 Nov 1997) |
| blind headache | <disease> An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, attacks are preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, usually with resultant prodromal sensory (especially ocular) symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows. Origin: Gr. Hemikrania = an affection of half of the head (18 Nov 1997) |
| vacuum headache | Headache due to closure of the frontal sinus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vascular headache | <neurology> A group of headaches felt to involve abnormal sensitivity of the blood vessels (arteries) in the brain to various triggers which results in rapid changes in the artery size due to spasm (constriction). Other arteries in the brain and scalp then open (dilate), and throbbing pain is perceived in the head. Migraine headaches are the most common type of vascular headache. (07 Mar 2000) |
| reflex headache | A headache secondary to another organic condition. Synonym: reflex headache. (05 Mar 2000) |