| 单词 | scrivener's palsy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrivener's palsy scrivener's palsy 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 1864 S. Solly in Lancet 24 Dec. 709/1 When scriveners' palsy first commences, the victim of it only feels its direful influence after a hard day's work. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 543/2 The disease known as Writer's Cramp, or Scrivener's Palsy. 1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII xx. 353 Acrid torpor astringed and benumbed His right arm from elbow to finger-tip, announcing the advent of scrivener's palsy. 2014 New Yorker 26 May 30/1 In the nineteenth century, it [sc. writer's cramp] was also often called scrivener's palsy—or steel-pen palsy, because the change from quill pens was thought to have caused it or made it worse. < as lemmas |
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