| 单词 | writer's cramp |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswriter'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.1writer's cramp writer's cramp n. (also writers' cramp) a disorder, spec. a form of dystonia (involuntary spasmodic muscle contraction), which affects muscles of the hand and results in difficulty in writing; (also, loosely) fatigue of the hand after a long period of writing. [After German Schreibekrampf, (now usually) Schreibkrampf, literally ‘writing cramp’ (L. Stromeyer 1840, in Med. Correspondenz-Blatt bayerischer Aerzte I 113). Compare French crampe des écrivains , literally ‘writer's cramp’ (1842 or earlier; after German). Compare scrivener's cramp at scrivener n. Compounds.] 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 1842 Periscope July in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 37 202 We wish to allude to a few circumstances connected with what has been called by some ‘the writers' cramp’. 1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 243/2 (advt.) This interruption, consciously or unconsciously, hampers the flow of thought, tires the hand, and may even cause writers' cramp. 1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue viii. 126 It seems curious indeed that people were not driven to more compact spellings by writer's cramp if not by urgency. 2010 Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 15/3 A golfer's ‘yips’ are not down to the pressure of a crucial putt but are caused instead by a movement disorder similar to writer's cramp, according to a study by neurologists. < as lemmas |
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