writer's cramp
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He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp.
From Time Magazine Archive
When his writer's cramp gets too bad, hearings are limited to two hours a day, and Alfred de Marigny fills in the time in his cell, he has told Nancy, composing poems to the mosquitoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The victim of writer's cramp is seized by a strange kind of palsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The official diagnosis is that Fleisher's malady much resembles writer's cramp.
From Time Magazine Archive
In occupation neuroses, other than those produced by the use of the pen, pain, weakness, and numbness are at least equally prominent, and even in writer's cramp the "neuralgic" form is common.
From Why Worry? by Walton, George Lincoln
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