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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2020 Oct 21;81:103–105. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2020.10.035

Table 1:

History of the nomenclature of essential tremor

Year Term used Language Author*
1874 Tremore semplice essenziale Italian Pietro Burresi
1879 Tremore essenziale congenito Italian Edoardo Maragliano
1890 Essentieller Tremor German Anton Nagy
1892 Tremblement essentiel hereditaire French Fulgence Raymond
*

For a link to these papers, please see Louis et al. [13]

The word “essential” (or its translated equivalent) is bolded in each term above.