: a movement disorder marked by involuntary spasmodic movements especially of the limbs and facial muscles and typically symptomatic of neurological dysfunction (such as that associated with a neurodegenerative disease or metabolic disturbance) see Huntington's disease
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And the youngest had tics and movements so extreme that doctors diagnosed him with Sydenham chorea.
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Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
Medical concerns facing the midwives will include everything from breech birth to cancer, Huntington's chorea, and cataracts.
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2018
Six months later, doctors diagnosed Huntington’s chorea.
—Longreads, 26 Oct. 2017
He had been admitted with Huntington’s chorea after his family could no longer take care of him.
—Randall Fuller, WSJ, 28 July 2017
San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals developed a drug to manage Huntington’s chorea, the uncontrollable movements associated with the disease.
—Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
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Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
Medical concerns facing the midwives will include everything from breech birth to cancer, Huntington's chorea, and cataracts.
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2018
Six months later, doctors diagnosed Huntington’s chorea.
—Longreads, 26 Oct. 2017
He had been admitted with Huntington’s chorea after his family could no longer take care of him.
—Randall Fuller, WSJ, 28 July 2017
San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals developed a drug to manage Huntington’s chorea, the uncontrollable movements associated with the disease.
—Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
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“Chorea.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chorea. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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chorea
noun
cho·rea
kə-ˈrē-ə 
: a movement disorder marked by involuntary spasmodic movements especially of the limbs and facial muscles and typically symptomatic of neurological dysfunction (as that associated with a neurodegenerative disease or metabolic disturbance) see huntington's disease, sydenham's chorea
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