| 单词 | saturday night palsy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSaturday night palsy Saturday night palsy n. Medicine temporary weakness or paralysis of the hand and forearm, with wrist drop and inability to extend the fingers, resulting from injury to the radial nerve when the arm is pressed against a hard surface for a prolonged period of time (as during sleep following a bout of drinking); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > of specific muscles dog spasm1615 wry-mouth1661 risus sardonius1663 lifeblood1733 locked jaw1754 laryngismus1822 podism1858 blepharospasm1872 Saturday night palsy1887 wrist clonus1888 cardiospasm1896 pylorospasm1898 wrist jerk1899 histrionic spasm1912 main d'accoucheur1926 twister's cramp- 1887 J. M'Lachlan Anat. Surg. xxiii. 415 This last form (‘Saturday night palsy’) is peculiarly apt to be first discovered on Sunday morning, the patient usually applying for advice and explanation on the following Monday. 1889 J. M'Lachlan Appl. Anat. I. xxiv. 447 When the trunk of the musculo-spiral is paralysed, as in ‘crutch palsy’, in ‘Saturday night palsy’, and by pressure of the axillary pad in cases of fracture of the clavicle, this muscle is paralysed. 1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxxiv. 35/1 Wrist drop thus produced is known as a ‘Saturday night palsy’. 2007 Boston Globe (Nexis) 5 Mar. c4 An extreme example of pins and needles is ‘Saturday night palsy’, when a person becomes drunk and sleeps so heavily in one position that it can take weeks for crushed nerves to recover. < as lemmas |
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