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Migraine vs Ergoline - What's the difference?

migraine | ergoline |

As nouns the difference between migraine and ergoline

is that migraine is a severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances while ergoline is a tetracyclic heterocycle whose structural skeleton is contained in a diverse range of alkaloids, including some psychedelic drugs, and whose derivatives are used clinically for vasoconstriction and in the treatment of migraine and Parkinson's disease.

migraine

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology) A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.
  • He had a headache so bad that he wished he was dead, but it was the sort of migraine that promised him he would continue to suffer but not die.
    After consuming too much coffee every day for six weeks, she got severe migraines that would last up until 47 minutes after her first cup of coffee.

    Synonyms

    * hemicrania * megrim * sick headache

    Derived terms

    * migraine sufferer * migraineur * migrainous

    References

    Anagrams

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    ergoline

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia ergoline)
  • (chemistry) A tetracyclic heterocycle whose structural skeleton is contained in a diverse range of alkaloids, including some psychedelic drugs, and whose derivatives are used clinically for vasoconstriction and in the treatment of migraine and Parkinson's disease.
  • See also

    * ergotism