spasm of fingers

spasm of fingers
手指挛急

Medical Chinese dictionary (湘雅医学词典). 2013.

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  • Spasm — A brief, automatic jerking movement. A muscle spasm can be quite painful, with the muscle clenching tightly. A spasm of the coronary artery can cause angina. Spasms in various types of tissue may be caused by stress, medication, over exercise, or …   Medical dictionary

  • writer's spasm — noun see writer s cramp * * * writer s cramp, writer s palsy, or writer s spasm, pain and spasm of the muscles of the hand and fingers resulting from their excessive use in writing …   Useful english dictionary

  • Writer's spasm — Writer Writ er, n. [AS. wr[=i]tere.] [1913 Webster] 1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. [1913 Webster] They [came] that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. [1913 Webster] My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lock spasm — a firm tonic spasm that seems to lock the fingers together, as in writers cramp and in similar affections …   Medical dictionary

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  • cramp — 1. A painful muscle spasm caused by prolonged tetanic contraction. 2. A localized muscle spasm related to occupational use, qualified according to the occupation of the sufferer; e.g., seamstress s c., writer s c.. [M.E. crampe, fr. O.Fr., fr.… …   Medical dictionary

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  • writer's cramp — noun muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil • Syn: ↑graphospasm • Hypernyms: ↑spasm, ↑cramp, ↑muscle spasm * * * noun also writer s palsy …   Useful english dictionary

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