mogigraphia, n.

[‘ Writer’s cramp.']

Forms:  18 *mogigraphia*,   18 *mogographia*. 

Etymology: <  mogi- comb. form + post-classical Latin /-graphia/ (see -graphy comb. form), perhaps after mogilalia n. Compare mogigraphy n., mogigraphic adj.

 /Med./ /Obs./ /rare/.

  Writer’s cramp.

1857  R. Dunglison /Med. Lexicon/ (rev. ed.) 599/1 /Mogigraphia/, writers’ cramp.

1891  F. Taylor /Man. Pract. Med./ (ed. 2) 339 The disease is hence called writers’ cramp and scriveners’ palsy; graphospasm and mogigraphia have been used as technical terms.

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