megrim (megrim)

[Early mod. E. also mea grim, meagrom; G. Dan. migräne Sw. migrän ) = Sp. migraña = It. ma grana, emigrania, symptoms are such as amblyopia, a glimmering appear ance before the eyes, spectra of angular outline (fortification spectra), or hemianopsia. The headache, often be coming overpowering in its character and intensity, lasts is attended often with nausea and vomiting. The attacks return with a certain periodicity. Exhausting influences are apt to increase their frequency. The liability to megrim lasts for years, and is apt to disappear in middle life or later. Also called migraine, hemicrania, nervous head several hours to two or three days. At height it ache, and sick - headache. A fervent mygreyn was in the ryzt syde of hurr hedde. Chron. Vilodun., p. 12. ( Hall i well.) 2. pl. Lowne of spirits, as from headache or general physical disturbance; the "blues"; a morbid or whimsical state of feeling. These are his megrims , firks, and melancholies. Ford . IMG:content-0427.png:[blocks in formation] Meibomian (mi-bō'mi-an), a. [ Meibomius (see def.) + -an .] In an at . , pertaining to Meibo- mius (He in rich Meibom, a German physician, 1638-1700): specifically applied to the seba- ceo us follicles of the eyelids, known as Meibo- mian glands or follicles . They secrete the unc- tuous substance which lubricates the eye. See gland. meidan, n. Same as maidan . Me i dinger cell (mi'ding-er sel). A voltaic ele- ment in which the plates are zinc and copper and the liquids solutions of magnesium sul- phate and copper sulphate. The copper plate and solution of copper sulphate are contained in a small jar which stands in the bottom of the cell; the supply of cop- per sulphate is kept up by means of a funnel or tube con- taining crystals of it and extending from the top of the meikle, a . and n. cell down into the inner jar. See mickle . meiniet, " See meiny. meintt. Past participle of ming1.