Since the mid-19th century, "essential tremor" has been the diagnosis for a disorder of uncontrollable shaking — usually of the hands but sometimes of the head and other body parts, or the voice — that is not due to some other condition.
Tremors are its hallmark, familiar to anyone who has seen the shaking limbs of people with the disorder, like the actor Michael J. Fox or former Attorney General Janet Reno.
Parkinson's, a degenerative brain disorder, causes tremors or shaking, slowness of movement, rigidity or stiffness, and balance difficulties.
Parkinson's disease is a brain disorder that leads to shaking, stiffness and difficulties with walking, balance and coordination.
Among these conditions in Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disorder that includes symptoms of shaking, rigidity, difficulty walking, as well as cognitive and behavioral problems.
The comedian and star of "Deal or No Deal," Howie Mandel, has obsessive compulsive disorder and avoids at all costs shaking hands for fear of picking up germs.
Although never wounded, he left the military in 1945 suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that left him anxious and shaking.
It is classified as a "movement disorder," and it certainly is that, though the disorder can take the form of stiffness approaching paralysis or shaking and exaggerated movements approaching an epileptic fit.
And when Milgram's subjects found themselves doing things that they felt repulsive to them, they shivered, they shook, they felt a disorder in their soul.
If your fish has an infection, it will exhibit clamped fins, shaking, and lack of appetite in addition to other symptoms of swim bladder disorder.
