What is the medical term meaning head pain?

Answer 1

The generic term "cephalgia" is the medical equivalent of "headache." There are many other kinds of headaches and other causes of pain in the head as well. These include migraine headache, cluster headache, tension headache, temporal arteritis, as well as several other intracranial causes of head pain.

Answer 2

Doctors use the term headache or migraine to discuss a pain in the head, depending on the chronicity and cause. If the pain originates within an organ in the head the name for the pain may be more specific (e.g. 'ophthalmalgia': pain within the eyeball).

The medical term for 'pain in the head' is: cephalgia

Answer 3

A pain in the brain could be described with the word cephalgia.

Answer 4

The medical term for this is migraine.depending on what it is.

Answer 5

A pain in the head with the pain being above the eyes or the ears, behind the head (occipital), or in the back of the upper neck.

Answer 6

Cephalgia is the medical term meaning head pain.

Answer 7

Pericranial means around the head

Answer 8

Cranium