[‘ 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.