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Generalized "elliptic integrals"

I am interested in evaluating the following type of integrals. Here we a polynomial $q(x)$ of degree $d \geq 2$ with no non-negative roots. Then is there a name for integrals of the shape $$\int_0^\infty \frac{dx}{x^{\frac{2}{d+2}} q(x)^{\frac{2}{d+2}}}?$$ when $d = 2$, these are complete elliptic integrals. Is there a name for them in general? I tried searching for 'generalized elliptic integrals' but they seem to emphasize on generalizations based on the hypergeometric function rather than with the original integrals.

Any help would be appreciated.

Stanley Yao Xiao
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