Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pulsation; twitching; a form of spasmodic tic.
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Examples
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Babylonian Captivity, hence the sacred writer (II Par. iii, 3) gives the dimensions of the Temple by the "first measure", or ancient cubit, and Ezechiel (xl, 5; xliii, 13) adds to each cubit a handbreadth (the ancient palmus minor, one sixth of the small cubit) in order to obtain the length given in the Book of Kings.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Gray has seen only one case of acute palmus, and records it as follows: ` ` It was in a boy of six, whose heredity, so far as I could ascertain from the statements of his mother, was not neurotic.
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Gray mentions two cases of general palmus with pseudomelancholia, and describes them in the following words: --
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In both of my cases the palmus had existed for a long period, the exact limits of which, however, I could not determine, because the patient scouted the idea that he had had any trouble of the kind, but which the testimony of friends and relatives seemed to vouch for.
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It has seemed to me that many of the cases recorded as paramyoclonus multiples have been really acute palmus. ''
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Gray mentions two cases of general palmus with pseudomelancholia, and describes them in the following words: --
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In both of my cases the palmus had existed for a long period, the exact limits of which, however, I could not determine, because the patient scouted the idea that he had had any trouble of the kind, but which the testimony of friends and relatives seemed to vouch for.
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Gray has seen only one case of acute palmus, and records it as follows:
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It has seemed to me that many of the cases recorded as paramyoclonus multiples have been really acute palmus. "
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