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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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baaa~aaaad boy! :) Here’s a possibility: Derived Forms of noun coil 2 of 6 senses of coil Sense 1 coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix -- (a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; ``a coil of rope'' ) RELATED TO->(verb) coil#1 • gyrate, spiral, coil -- (to wind or move in a spiral course; ``the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor'' ) RELATED TO->(verb) coil#3 • coil, loop, curl -- (wind around something in coils or loops) Sense 2 coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll -- (a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles) RELATED TO->(verb) coil#1 • gyrate, spiral, coil -- (to wind or move in a spiral course; ``the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor'' ) RELATED TO->(verb) coil#3 • coil, loop, curl -- (wind around something in coils or loops)http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn?cmd=wn&word=coilIn other words, I think Shakespeare took the sense of something being in motion when being coiled, and transferred the sense into a noun representing the idea of vigorous motion, and hence a disturbance.
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