"essential tremor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: essential tremors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} essential tremor (countable and uncountable, plural essential tremors)
  1. (medicine, chiefly uncountable) A neurological condition that causes rhythmic shaking of unknown cause in one or more parts of the body during voluntary movements. Wikipedia link: essential tremor Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (Neurological condition): essentiële tremor [common-gender] (Dutch), tremblement essentiel [masculine] (French), essentieller Tremor [masculine] (German), tremore essenziale [masculine] (Italian), 本態性振戦 (hontaiseishinsen) (Japanese), 본태성 진전 (bontaeseong jinjeon) (Korean), drżenie samoistne [neuter] (Polish), tremor essencial [masculine] (Portuguese), temblor esencial [masculine] (Spanish), essentiell tremor [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-essential_tremor-en-noun-rDFDOSrP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

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