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the body's honest tremor when emotion outruns the words you've prepared.

means To shake involuntarily with small, quick movements, usually from fear, cold, weakness, or strong emotion.

from From Old French 'trembler,' descending from Latin 'tremulare,' to quiver — itself rooted in 'tremere,' to shake or quake. That Latin 'trem-' is a deep Indo-European root for trembling, the same family that gives us 'tremor' and 'tremulous.' The word has been shivering its way through the language for centuries, always keeping that sense of motion too fast and too small to control.

survival reflex
shaking warms muscles by burning calories fast
fear and cold
share the same shivering circuitry
aspen trees
named populus tremuloides for endless leaf-trembling
essential tremor
more common than Parkinson's, often inherited
adrenaline tell
hands betray nerves the voice tries hiding
for instance

hand tremor in parkinsons — involuntary shaking affecting millions of parkinson's disease patients worldwide

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