Relating to or causing a headache or pain in the head.
From Greek 'kephalē' (head) + 'algos' (pain) + '-ic' (suffix forming adjectives). The term combines the ancient Greek root for head with the medical suffix indicating a condition or quality.
Medical terminology from ancient Greek has shaped how doctors discuss pain today—when you say you have a 'headache,' you're describing something that ancient physicians would have recognized using this exact 'cephal-' prefix, which appears in hundreds of modern medical terms.
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