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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.
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Choreatic
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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
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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