CHOREA
\kɔːɹˈi͡ə], \kɔːɹˈiə], \k_ɔː_ɹ_ˈiə]\
Definitions of CHOREA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
By Oddity Software
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St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
By Noah Webster.
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Involuntary, forcible, rapid, jerky movements that may be subtle or become confluent, markedly altering normal patterns of movement. Hypotonia and pendular reflexes are often associated. Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent episodes of chorea as a primary manifestation of disease are referred to as CHOREATIC DISORDERS. Chorea is also a frequent manifestation of BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A disorder, usually of childhood, characterized by irregular, spasmodic, involuntary movements of the limbs or facial muscles; when used without qualification the term usually refers to Sydenham's c., or St. Vitus's dance.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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St. Vitus's dance, a disease occasioning convulsive motions of the limbs and strange gesticulations.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The characteristics are :-irregular and involuntary motions of one or more limbs, and of the face and trunk. It is a disease which usually occurs before puberty; and is generally connected with torpor of the system, and of the digestive organs in particular. Its duration is long, but it is usually devoid of danger; although frequently but little under the control of medicine. The spasms do not continue during sleep. The indications of treatment are: to strengthen the general system, and stimulate the intestinal canal. Purgatives, once or twice a week, and chalybeates, with appropriate regimen, will fulfil these.
By Robley Dunglison
