English term
prior migraine attacks
Dear colleagues
I would like you to help me.
There are 4 stages of a migraine attack: early warning signs(Premonitory) , aura, attack phase, and post-migraine phase.
I don't know if it means 'premonitory symptoms' or 'before migraine attacks' .
Thank you very much in advance.
Feb 24, 2021 11:46: Yvonne Gallagher changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Feb 24, 2021 12:04: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "migraine" to "Medical: Pharmaceuticals"
Non-PRO (3): Rob Grayson, Rachel Fell, Yvonne Gallagher
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Germany
Native EN|PhD|Parmaceuticals|Medical
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US) 
Works in: German to English, Danish to English, English, and 1 more.
previous migraine attacks|migraine attacks in the past
It means that the patient has had at least 3 migraine attacks before the current one.
This is not the first migraine attack of the patient.
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Tony M
1 min
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Petrus Maritz
8 mins
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Susanne Schiewe
1 hr
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Bashiqa
1 hr
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Teangacha (X)
2 hrs
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writeaway
: most English dictionaries include the word 'prior'
3 hrs
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AllegroTrans
5 hrs
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Chiara U.
8 hrs
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migraine attacks that happened before (this one)
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Yvonne Gallagher
: yes, simple meaning of "prior". Nothing else
3 hrs
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Thanks, Yvonne!
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writeaway
: With Yvonne. It's just about the word prior. It doesn't have a specialist 'medical' meaning. (If it were medical, I wouldn't have a clue and wouldn't be peer agreeing.....)
4 hrs
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Thanks, W/A! Quite!
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AllegroTrans
5 hrs
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Thanks, C!
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Tina Vonhof (X)
7 hrs
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Thanks, Tina!
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Chiara U.
8 hrs
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Thanks, Chiara!
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United States
English/Arabic/Frensh
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Tunisian, Iraqi, Sudanese, Egyptian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Yemeni, Saudi , UAE, Standard-Arabian (MSA), Moroccan, Syrian, Libyan, Kuwaiti, Algerian, Jordanian) 
Works in: French to Arabic, English to Arabic, Arabic to French, and 6 more.
مؤشرات هجمات الشقيقة
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AllegroTrans
: Question is EN-EN; what use is Arabic to an Asker in Japan?
1 hr
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Tony M
: Wrong language
3 hrs
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Ireland
Legal Translator
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Spanish to Portuguese, and 2 more.
Previous/past migraine attacks
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Tina Vonhof (X)
: good point
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Thank you, Tina :)
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