chorean.
/kɒˈriːə/ Pathology.
St. Vitus's dance, a name given to the dancing madness (choreomania) which spread in the 15th cent. from Germany throughout Europe; an epidemic (probably hysterical) characterized by contortions, convulsions, and dancing. In 17th cent. extended to the disease at present known by that name; a convulsive disorder, usually occurring in early life, and characterized by irregular involuntary contractions of the muscles, esp. of the face and arms; also affecting horses.
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tirla1585
St. Vitus's dance1621
chorea1686
St. Vitus's jig1702
leaping ague1792
St. Vitus's fit1836
dancing-mania1877
Huntington's disease1889
Sydenham's chorea1892
dancing-plague-
1686 T. Sydenham Schedula Monitoria 25 In quadam Convulsionis specie quæ Chorea Sancti Viti vulgo appellatur.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Chorea Sancti Viti, is a sort of Madness..wherein the Person affected..ran hither and thither dancing to the last gasp, if they were not forcibly hindred.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 125 Mr. Alexander..relates three interesting cases of chorea.
1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) vii. 154 Chorea. This is a convulsive involuntary twitching of some muscle or set of muscles.
1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 325 A girl aged 13 years, suffering from chorea.
Derivatives
choˈreal adj. (incorrectly choreaic, choræic) pertaining to or symptomatic of chorea, affected with chorea.
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choreatic1806
choreal1861
choreic1875
post-choreic1899
1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 598 The choreal have the first active symptoms of cerebral disease.
choreˈatic adj.
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choreatic1806
choreal1861
choreic1875
post-choreic1899
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 125 Deglutition..attended with choreatic gesticulations.
choˈreic adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > chorea
choreatic1806
choreal1861
choreic1875
post-choreic1899
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 340 Diminishing temporarily the choreic movements.
1878 Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 417 Choreaic twitchings of the left hand.
1882 W. H. Smith tr. T. A. Ribot Dis. Memory II. 82 A young woman, aged twenty-six, hysterical and choreic.
choˈreiform adj. (incorrectly choreaform) resembling the symptoms of chorea.
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1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 231 Choreiform movements.
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