"stiff person" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
For example, "He was a rather stiff person, rarely smiling or expressing joy."
Preliminary data have been obtained in patients with cervical or thoracolumbar myofascial pain syndrome, chronic low back pain, piriformis muscle syndrome, tennis elbow, and stiff person syndrome.
Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a rare, insidiously progressive disease of central nervous system characterized by axial and limb rigidity with superimposed stimulus-sensitive spasms.
Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a rare, neurological disorder characterized by sudden cramps and spasms.
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) is a rare neurologic disease with a strong autoimmune component.
Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a CNS disorder characterized by increased muscle tone and prominent agoraphobia and anxiety.
Stiff person syndrome (SPS), a rare and multi-facetted disorder of the central nervous system, is one of the neuropsychiatric disorders where anxious symptoms are found most frequently [1], [2].
Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) with antibodies to amphiphysin is a paraneoplastic disorder of the central nervous system with a putative autoimmune pathogenesis.
83, 84 The phenotypes can extend from axial-dominant stiff-person syndrome (SPS), or variant SPS with single limb involvement, to the progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus (PERM) subtype with prominent encephalopathy and brainstem features.
Diagnoses were: aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH, n = 4), severe traumatic brain injury (TBI, n = 2), ischemic stroke (n = 2), intracerebral hemorrhage (n = 2), severe sepsis (n = 1), hepatic encephalopathy with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (n = 1) and stiff-person syndrome (n = 1).
Eliot seems to have wanted Groucho to consider him a warm, ordinary guy and not the type of stiff, repressed person who disdained from a great height "free-thinking Jews".
Boaz is depicted as a real Jew — which is to say, as a stiff-necked person who dares to deny the divinity of Jesus and who, therefore, doesn't enjoy the mollifying forms of Christian virtue or the favor of Christian grace.
