stiffness
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Doctors then looked into her case further and concluded she in fact did not have the autoimmune disease, which can cause muscle stiffness and problems with walking and talking.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Deisseroth offered another example with Parkinson's disease, a progressive brain disorder that can cause shaking, stiffness and difficulty controlling movement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The disease is marked by symptoms including tremor, stiffness, slow movement, gait and balance problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Osteoarthritis, a joint disease causing pain, stiffness and cartilage loss, found her anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
She says my dad is at the grocery store, and I can tell by the stiffness in her voice that they still haven’t addressed the news he dropped yesterday.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Increasingly it was more difficult to fight the aches and stiffnesses which tried to keep her in bed in the morning—not that they ever succeeded.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
And I felt very sorry for Carette, and did not wonder so much now at the little stiffnesses of manner I had noticed in her the last time we met.
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
And the muslins and blue ribbons will be wonderful filmy creations, as different from the Early Victorian stiffnesses as anything you can possibly imagine.
From Betty Trevor by Victor Prout
It blows fogs, foul vapours, joint- stiffnesses, agues, pestilences, over us here,—yes, here!
From The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 by George Meredith
He seems to have loved the very stiffnesses of the form in which he worked.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
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