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

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Recent Examples on the Web

But while some headaches—like cluster headaches and tension headaches—can occur on their own without a specific reason, other headaches can be related to outside circumstances, like allergies. —Maggie O'neill, Health.com, 28 Apr. 2020

Certain medications can trigger cluster headaches, according to the Mayo Clinic. —Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Dec. 2019

At the low point, early on, Joe McKay was getting cluster headaches every other day for an hour at a time. —Jerry Carino, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019

The dispensary is based in Vancouver and claims to mail psilocybin microdoses to people with a documented medical need; Larsen lists anxiety, cluster headaches, and pain as conditions that can be treated with psilocybin. —Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 24 Aug. 2019

Fewer than 1 percent of people have cluster headaches. —NBC News, 5 June 2019

Noninvasive, handheld vagal nerve stimulators meant to ease cluster headaches and migraine have recently also gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration, although exactly how vagal nerve stimulation helps those conditions is unclear. —Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2018

The medications currently used to treat cluster headaches include the heart and psychiatric issues. —NBC News, 5 June 2019

Also, cluster headaches generally aren’t triggered by certain factors, like stress or hormonal changes, the way tension headaches and migraines can be. —Amy Marturana, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018

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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