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Sydenham Path.|ˈsɪdənəm|
[The name of Thomas Sydenham (1624–89), English physician, who described the chorea in Schedula Monitoria de Novæ Febris Ingressu (1686).]
Sydenham's chorea: a self-limited disorder of childhood or pregnancy that is a neurological manifestation of rheumatic fever, affecting the motor activities of the nervous system and characterized by involuntary movements.
1892Med. Record (N.Y.) XLI. 285/2 There are many cases of Sydenham's chorea in which voluntary effort arrests the movements. 1954Handbk. for Mental Nurses (ed. 8) vi. 162 Sydenham's Chorea. This, also known as St. Vitus's Dance, is..much commoner in girls than in boys. 1976Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry vii. 128 Sydenham's chorea occurs in younger people, there is no family history, no dementia and the course is not progressive. |