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basilar migraine

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migraine /mi·graine/ (mi´grān) a symptom complex of periodic headaches, usually temporal and unilateral, often with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, and photophobia, preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, often with resultant prodromal sensory, especially ocular, symptoms (aura), and commencing with the vasodilation that follows.mi´grainous
abdominal migraine  that in which abdominal symptoms are predominant.
basilar migraine , basilar artery migraine a type of ophthalmic migraine whose aura fills both visual fields and which may be accompanied by dysarthria and disturbances of equilibrium.
ophthalmic migraine  migraine accompanied by amblyopia, teichopsia, or other visual disturbance.
ophthalmoplegic migraine  periodic migraine accompanied by ophthalmoplegia.
retinal migraine  a type of ophthalmic migraine with retinal symptoms, probably secondary to constriction of one or more retinal arteries.

basilar migraine
Neurology A type of classical migraine that first appears in adolescence, primarily in young ♀, often associated with the menstrual cycle, which is linked to a vasomotor defect of a major brain artery (carotid, vertebrobasilar); in BMs, aura symptoms are thought to arise in the brainstem or occipital lobes Clinical Loss of consciousness, drop attacks, vertigo, alternating hemiplegia, and confusion, +– accompanied by ataxia, incoordination, diplopia, dysarthria, and nystagmus, as well as pallor, vomiting, and photophobia, possibly followed by polydipsia, polyuria, irritability. See Classical migraine.


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