| 单词 | scrivener's cramp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrivener's cramp Usually spoken of as cramp, formerly and still colloquial the cramp; a cramp is a particular case or form of the seizure. The word is also used of affections accompanied by feelings akin to those of cramp, and assumed to be in part due to it, as cramp of the chest (= angina pectoris n. at angina n. Compounds), cramp of the heart, cramp of the stomach, etc., and it is also applied to paralytic affections caused by over-exertion of particular muscles of the hand, as compositor's cramp, musician's cramp, scrivener's cramp, shoemaker's cramp, writer's cramp.extracted from crampn.1scrivener's cramp scrivener's cramp now historical = writer's cramp n. at writer n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > disease characterized by writer's cramp1842 scrivener's cramp1851 writer's paralysis1853 mogigraphia1857 mogigraphy1857 writer's palsy1860 scrivener's palsy1864 dystonia musculorum deformans1912 dystonia1916 1851 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 8) Scrivener's Cramp, writers'. 1882 Shorthand 1 154 They may only escape the Scylla of scrivener's cramp to fall into the Charybdis of telegrapher's palsy. 1974 Times 2 Nov. 12/6 Writer's cramp (or scrivener's cramp) was a clearly recognized occupational disease among professional writers. < as lemmas |
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