| 单词 | writer's palsy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswriter's palsy writer's palsy n. (also writers' palsy) now rare a disorder, spec. a form of dystonia, which affects muscles of the hand and results in difficulty in writing; = writer's cramp n.Cf. scrivener's palsy at scrivener n. Compounds, scribe's palsy n. at scribe n.1 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 1860 Med. Times & Gaz. 1 Dec. 532/2 The following is a case of what is commonly called ‘writer's palsy’. The fact however is..that the condition is one of spasm. 1905 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. 39 520 He [sc. John Quincy Adams] wrote slowly, and, owing to a steadily increasing tremor of the hand, probably writer's palsy, with great difficulty. 1974 Times 24 Aug. (Sat. Review) 9/3 Is it because our good young [chess] players tend to write too much..? Do they in consequence suffer from a sort of writers' palsy? < as lemmas |
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