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Saint Vitus's dance

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St. Vi⋅tus's dance

  [vahy-tuh-siz]
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–noun Pathology.
chorea (def. 2).
Also, St. Vi⋅tus dance  [vahy-tuhs] , St. Vi⋅tus' dance  [vahy-tuhs, -tuh-siz] , Saint Vitus's dance.

Origin:
1955–60; named after St. Vitus (3rd century), patron saint of those afflicted with chorea
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Saint Vitus's dance

  [vahy-tuh-siz] .
–noun
St. Vitus's dance.
Also, Saint Vitus' dance.

cho⋅re⋅a

  [kuh-ree-uh, kaw-, koh-]
–noun Pathology.
1. any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
2. Also called St. Vitus's dance. such a disease occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever.
3. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the central nervous system caused by bacterial or organic degeneration, most common in dogs following canine distemper, characterized by irregular, jerky, involuntary muscular movements.
Origin:
1680–90; < Gk choreía a dance, equiv. to chor(ós) chorus + -eia -y 3

Related forms:
cho⋅re⋅al, cho⋅re⋅ic, cho⋅re⋅at⋅ic  [kawr-ee-at-ik, kohr-] , adjective
cho⋅re⋅oid  [kawr-ee-oid, kohr-] , adjective
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Saint Vi·tus' dance also Saint Vi·tus's dance   (vī'təs, -tə-sĭz)   
n.  See Sydenham's chorea.

[After Saint Vitus, third-century A.D. Christian martyr.]
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Word Origin & History

chorea 
1806, from Mod.L. chorea Sancti Viti "St. Vitus dance" (originally a mass hysteria in 15c. Europe characterized by uncontrolled dancing; extension to the nerve disorder is from 1621), from L. chorea, from Gk. khoreia "dance."
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: cho·rea
Pronunciation: k&-'rE-&
Function: noun
: any of various nervous disorders of infectious or organic origin marked byspasmodic movements of the limbs and facial muscles and by incoordination called also Saint Vitus' dance; —see HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SYDENHAM'S CHOREA —cho·re·at·ic /"kOr-E-'at-ik, "kor-/ adjective —cho·re·ic /k&-'rE-ik/ adjective
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chorea cho·re·a (kô-rē'ə, kə-)
n.
Irregular, spasmodic, involuntary movements of the limbs or facial muscles.

cho·re'al or cho·re'ic adj.

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