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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



... run down to see the happy couple. Vida was now looking a good forty, but Clyde was actually looking younger than ever; not a line nor a wrinkle to show how he had grieved for her, and not a sign of writer's cramp from these three picture cards he had sent her in five years. She'd been afraid he'd come back worn ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... "Perhaps it's writer's cramp," said Cleggett, indulging the pleasant humor that was on him. He was really thinking that, with $500,000 of his own, he had written his last headline, edited his last piece of ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis

... bawl, but not every one can sing softly—therefore always practise softly until the voice be well formed, when it will be easy to increase the volume of sound. Constant shouting causes the muscles of the larynx to lose their contractile power, and a condition is brought about which is analogous to writer's cramp. Sometimes no voice can be produced, while at others it is given forth in a series of uncontrollable jerks. Singers deficient in resonance, and who have not acquired the best use and control of the various parts of the resonator, ...
— The Mechanism of the Human Voice • Emil Behnke



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



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