Medical Definition of Choreoid
1. Resembling chorea. Synonym: choreiform. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choreoid
Literary usage of Choreoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Magoffin French, Charles Spencer Williamson (1908)
"choreoid AFFECTIONS. Chronic chorea (Huntington's chorea) is a disease of adult
life, usually appearing after the thirtieth year, sometimes inherited, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"I have reason to believe that some of the general and prolonged choreoid disturbances
which we see now and then from birth, are due to, or, rather, ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"Dr. Mitchell further believes thai some of the general and prolonged choreoid
disturbances which are seen now and then from birth are due to, or in some way ..."
4. Suggestions to medical writers by George Milbry Gould (1900)
"... or choreoid, when we mean the ocular structure. We need choreoid for the
chorea-signification, ..."