cluster headache

noun

: a headache that is characterized by severe pain in the eye or temple and tends to recur in a series of attacks

Examples of cluster headache in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This Nature report also explains what happened to patients after the collapse of companies behind implantable devices used to treat conditions like cluster headaches and chronic pain or when their prototype devices languish if the companies can’t find a fit in the market. —Emma Roth, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2024

For cluster headaches, oxygen therapy (which uses a respiratory mask to inhale oxygen) can help relieve symptoms. —Mark Gurarie, Health, 25 July 2024

And other conditions that lag behind cluster headaches will take even longer, leaving people to suffer in the interim. —Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 May 2024

Several types of headaches, like migraine and cluster headaches, cause unilateral (one-sided) pain. —Mark Gurarie, Health, 25 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

cluster headache

noun

: a headache that is characterized by severe unilateral pain in the eye or temple, affects primarily men, and tends to recur in a series of attacks

called also histamine cephalalgia, histamine cephalgia, Horton's syndrome