cephalalgia

1. 1.

   pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs

   Synonymsheadachehead ache

   Broaderache

   Narrowerhistamine headachemigrainesick headachesinus headachetension headache

Other forms of cephalalgia

plural

cephalalgias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cephalalgia

What does cephalalgia mean?

cephalalgia means "pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs".

How many syllables are in cephalalgia?

cephalalgia has 5 syllables: ce-pha-lal-gi-a. The stress falls on "lal".

What is another word for cephalalgia?

Close synonyms include headache, head ache. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cephalalgia a common word?

cephalalgia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.