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writing hand

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hand (hand) the distal part of the upper limb, consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and fingers.
ape hand  one with the thumb permanently extended.
claw hand  see clawhand.
cleft hand  a malformation in which the division between the fingers extends into the metacarpus; often with just two large digits, one on either side of the cleft.
Cleft hand.
club hand  see clubhand.
drop hand  wristdrop.
lobster-claw hand  cleft h.
mitten hand  a hand in which several fingers are fused together and have a common nail.
writing hand  in paralysis agitans, assumption of the position by which a pen is commonly held.

writ·ing hand (rtng)
n.
A contraction of the hand muscles seen in Parkinson's disease, in which the fingers appear to be in the position of holding a pen.

hand [hand]
the terminal part of the upper limb of a human or a nonhuman primate.
ape hand one with the thumb permanently extended.
cleft hand a malformation in which the division between the fingers extends into the metacarpus; also, a hand with the middle digits absent.
claw hand see clawhand.
drop hand wristdrop.
lobster-claw hand cleft hand.
obstetrician's hand the contraction of the hand in tetany; the hand is flexed at the wrist, the fingers are flexed at the metacarpophalangeal joints but extended at the interphalangeal joints, and the thumb is strongly flexed into the palm.
writing hand in Parkinson's disease, assumption of the position by which a pen is commonly held.


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Looking on the bright side, we may instead have suffered the usual landslide of absentee democrats, that army of highly-opinionated, hugely voluble British voters who would chew their writing hands off rather than shuffle off to the polling station once a year.
After she'd exercised her writing hand signing copies, she then went out for a pub and club crawl in the capital with her friends.
Then he mentions the cost of his training sessions - $3,200 - and my pen seems to trail off the page like someone had just smashed my writing hand with a brick.
 
 
 
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