writer's cramp

American  

noun

1. spasmodic, painful contractions of the muscles of the thumb, forefinger, and forearm during writing.

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writer's cramp British  

noun

1. a muscular spasm or temporary paralysis of the muscles of the thumb and first two fingers caused by prolonged writing

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writer's cramp

The mayors respond like pre-med students before final exams, asking the same basic questions and getting writer's cramp taking notes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Barbra Streisand, Doris Day and George Burns stuck to traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the British Journal of Mental Science, Pai reports that he has found writer's cramp surprisingly widespread in Britain.*

From Time Magazine Archive

There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wrote from morning until night, and watching him stretching his lean old hands, I asked him if he suffered much pain from writer's cramp.

From The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke

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