The clinical term for a headache, or a generalized pain in the region of the head, includes the combining form for "head," encephal/o, and the suffix that means "condition of pain."

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The clinical term for a headache uses the combining form "cephal/o" for "head" and the suffix "-algia" for "pain," making "cephalalgia," not "encephal/o," which refers to the brain.

The Clinical Term for a Headache, or a Generalized Pain