aura, pl. aurae

1. Subjective symptoms occurring at the onset of a partial epileptic seizure; often characteristic for the brain region involved in the seizure, e.g., visual aura, occipital lobe auditory aura, temporal lobe.

2. Subjective symptoms at the onset of a migraine headache.

Origin

[L. breeze, odor, gleam of light]

intellectual aura

kinesthetic aura

reminiscent aura