Forms: 6 cepha- large, 7 -alge, 7–8 -algie, 8–9 -algy. Also 7– cephalalgia. [ad. L. cephalalgia, a. Gr. κεφαλαλγία (found also as cephalargia, κεφαλαργία), f. κεφαλή head + -αλγία pain, ache, f. ἄλγος pain; cf. F. cephalalgie. Now usually, as a medical term, in L. form.] Head-ache.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, lxviii. 29. Cephalarge or an universal peyne in the head.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 61. He is troubled with a Cephalalgie; that is, a pain in his head.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 75. Spasms, Convulsions, Cephalalgia’s.
1681. trans. Willis’ Rem. Med. Wks., Voc., Cephalalge, the Head-ach.
1822. New Monthly Mag., V. 110. Dividing their discourses into heads … which always afflicts me with a Cephalalgy.
1878. Habershon, Dis. Abdomen, 5. In indigestion, we find cephalalgia.
