magrums
An archaic American folk term applied to the uncontrollable shaking fits observed in a disease later identified as Huntington's.
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An archaic American folk term applied to the uncontrollable shaking fits observed in a disease later identified as Huntington's. The word predates clinical diagnosis and belongs to a tradition of descriptive vernacular disease names; it reflects 19th-century rural communities naming frightening inherited conditions by their most visible symptom.
Old-timers in the county whispered that the magrums had taken three generations of that family.
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(US, archaic) Huntington's disease.
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