See Also: alternating tremor(medicine)
alternating(dictionary)
alternating strabismus(medicine)
alternating mydriasis(medicine)
alternating pulse(medicine)
alternating current (AC)(encyclopedia)
alternating current(dictionary)
Alternating Current(medicine)
Alternating hemiplegia of childhood(health)
alternating light test(medicine)

croquet (oh) and alternating tremor (medicine)


croquet (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French dialect; Origin: 'Hockey stick', from Old North French, 'tool with a hook', from croc 'hook', probably from Old Norse krokr; CROOK1]
a game played on grass in which players hit balls with wooden mallets (=long-handled hammers) so that they roll under curved wires

alternating tremor (medicine)


alternating tremor


A form of hyperkinesia characterised by regular, symmetrical, to-and-fro movements (at about 4 per second) that are produced by patterned, alternating contraction of muscles and their antagonists.