单词 | sydenham |
释义 | Sydenhamn. Pathology. Sydenham's chorea n. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea 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- 1892 Med. Record (N.Y.) XLI. 285/2 There are many cases of Sydenham's chorea in which voluntary effort arrests the movements. 1954 Handbk. 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. 1976 J. R. Smythies & L. Corbett Psychiatry Students of Med. vii. 128 Sydenham's chorea occurs in younger people, there is no family history, no dementia and the course is not progressive. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1892 |
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