mobile phone elbow
n.— «A surgeon from a Beijing hospital says more and more white-collar workers are turning up with a strange disease they dub “mobile phone elbow.” The patients’ elbows are painful or numb, and sometimes they can’t even raise their hands. The doctor says the disease occurs when patients spend more than 4 hours on their mobiles.» —“White-collars’ hated inventions” China Daily (Beijing) Jan. 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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