essential tremor

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Noun

essential tremor (countable and uncountable, plural essential tremors)

  1. (medicine, chiefly uncountable) A neurological condition that causes rhythmic shaking of unknown cause in one or more parts of the body during voluntary movements.
    • 2003, Mary J. Shomon, Jill Marjama-Lyons, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Parkinson's Disease: A Holistic Program for Optimal Wellness, →ISBN:
      Patients with essential tremor will often complain of difficulty with handwriting.

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