I have seen in two cases a barbers’ cramp (keirospasm or xyrospasm) — i.e., a spastic contraction of the muscles of the hand and fingers, which came on in a barber at every attempt to use a razor.
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Xyrospasm
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1 entries- 剃毛痙攣 noun (contraction of a muscle)
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