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Writer's cramp   /rˈaɪtərz kræmp/   Listen
Writer's cramp

noun
1.
Muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil.  Synonym: graphospasm.






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"Writer's cramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... alarmed, my dear boy, at the change for the worse in my handwriting. I am suffering for my devotion to the studious habits of a lifetime: my right hand is attacked by the malady called Writer's Cramp. The doctor here can do nothing. He tells me of some foreign woman, mentioned in his newspaper, who cures nervous derangements of all kinds by hand-rubbing, and who is coming to London. When you next hear from me, I may be in London too."—There ...
— The Legacy of Cain • Wilkie Collins



Words linked to "Writer's cramp" :   cramp, muscle spasm, graphospasm, spasm



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