enxaqueca

Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Andalusian Arabic, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic الشَقِيقَة (aš-šaqīqa). Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Galician and Old Spanish xaqueca, Spanish jaqueca.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: en‧xa‧que‧ca

Noun

enxaqueca f (plural s)

1. (medicine) migraine (kind of headache, usually affecting only one side of the head)

Synonyms

• (migraine): hemialgia, hemicrania, migrânea

Related terms

• cefaleia

Further reading

• enxaqueca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt