avocado hand

English

Etymology

avocado + hand; analogous to earlier-attested terms on the pattern of [role/activity/object] + [body part], such as tennis elbow, bed head, runner's knee, farmer's lung, miner's lung, and woolsorter's disease; newer examples include sex hair, Tetris brain, and avocado hand.

Noun

avocado hand (usually uncountable, plural avocado hands)

1. A hand injury sustained during the cutting of an avocado, typically an incisional or stab wound of the nondominant hand.
   • 2017, G Rahmani, J Martin-Smith, P Sullivan, “The avocado hand”, in Irish Medical Journal‎^[1], volume 110, number 10, →PMID, page 658:

     There has been an apparent increase in avocado related hand injuries. […] The mechanism of injury is usually a stabbing injury to the non-dominant hand as the knife slips past the stone, through the soft avocado fruit. Despite their apparent increased incidence, we could not find any cases in the literature which describe the “avocado hand”. We present a case of a 32-year-old woman who sustained a significant hand injury while preparing an avocado.