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Definition of Chorea
1. Noun. Chorea in dogs.
2. Noun. Any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs.
Specialized synonyms: Orthochorea, Saint Vitus Dance, St. Vitus Dance, Sydenham's Chorea, Tarantism, Huntington's Chorea, Huntington's Disease
Definition of Chorea
1. n. St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
Definition of Chorea
1. Noun. An (Ancient Greek) (circular) (dance) accompanied by a (chorus). ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) Any of various (diseases) of the (nervous system) characterized by (involuntary) (muscular) movements of the face and extremities; [ St. Vitus's dance]. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chorea
1. a nervous disorder [n -S] : CHOREAL, CHOREIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Chorea
1. Mature onset disease characterised by progressive loss of neuronal functioning. Caused by unstable amphlification of a trinucleotide (CAG)n repeat with the coding region of a gene encoding a 348 kD, widely exposed product. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorea
Literary usage of Chorea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"About 25 per cent of the cases of chorea gravidarum die. Even after apparent
recovery, recurrence is not uncommon. Differential Diagnosis. ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"The blood of thirty-six cases of Syden- hain's chorea, treated in the clinics of
Drs. ... The chorea was slight and the patient had serious heart- disease, ..."
3. The Lancet (1842)
"On Cases of chorea:— Cases of chorea occurring in persons under puberty ; causes
of chorea ; tendency of bad living to produce the disease ; the origin of ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"The author gives a historical sketch of the two types of chorea. ... That whereas
Huntington's chorea is a disease of adults, Syden- ham's chorea is found ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1895)
"We shall speak here only of Sydenham's chorea. Senile chorea, chronic chorea,
... chorea is rare in the negro, and is almost unknown in the native races of ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"THE more recent studies of the pathology of chorea have led to a practically
unanimous conclusion that the seat of the disease is primarily in the ..."
7. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"The term chorea ordinarily applies to the condition described by Sydenham, in
1686; and the names chorea minor, chorea vulgaris, and chorea anglorum are ..."
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