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telegrapher's paralysis

noun

Definitions

  1. A stiff arm resulting from a long session of telegraph operation.

    • If he were to use his fingers instead of his wrist, he would soon have telegrapher's paralysis or a “glass arm," in the lingo of the radio cabin.

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