noun
aura
a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure
In a sentence
Six example sentences with aura, each labelled with its topic.
Her aura arrives about twenty minutes first, a shimmer at the edge of vision, and then the headache lands.
Medicine
The novelist describes the aura in detail, the smell of burnt toast that warned her narrator a seizure was minutes away.
Literature
Cyclists who feel an aura pull over and wait, since the episode that follows it usually arrives within minutes.
Fitness
Researchers link the aura before a migraine to a slow wave of electrical activity spreading across the visual cortex.
Science
The app logs each aura the moment it starts, and patterns in the timestamps helped her doctor adjust the treatment.
Technology
Some historians read Hildegard of Bingen's visions of shimmering light as the aura of migraine attacks she described in detail.
History
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