yleispäähän
Yleispäähän is a term that appears in some Finnish medical and descriptive texts, but it is not a standard entry in contemporary Finnish dictionaries. It is a phrase formed from the prefix yleis- (general, overall) and the illative form päähän of pää (head), and is used to indicate involvement or spread toward the head in a general sense rather than to a specific subregion.
The construction reflects Finnish affixation: yleis- functions as a general-modifying prefix, while päähän marks motion or
Yleispäähän tends to occur in clinical narratives, case reports, or older texts. In modern Finnish, speakers
- "Kipu levisi yleispäähän ilman selvää paikallistusta." (The pain spread to the head in general without a
- "Infektio on levinnyt yleispäähän, ei ainoastaan ohimoihin." (The infection has spread to the head in general,