A name of some disease: editors suggest St. Vitus's dance. Obsolete. rare.
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释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea (10) tirla1585 A name of some disease: editors suggest St. Vitus's dance. Obsolete. rare. St. Vitus's dance1621 Phrases. St. Vitus's dance: = chorea, n.; also figurative and in extended use. Also St. Vitus's fit. chorea1686 St. Vitus's dance, a name given to the dancing madness (choreomania) which spread in the 15th cent. from Germany throughout Europe; an epidemic… St. Vitus's jig1702 St. Vitus's jig: St. Vitus's dance, chorea. leaping ague1792 (see quots.). St. Vitus's fit1836 Phrases. St. Vitus's dance: = chorea, n.; also figurative and in extended use. Also St. Vitus's fit. dancing-mania1877 Huntington's disease1889 A rare hereditary disease of the brain manifested in middle age and characterized by irregular body movements, disturbance of speech, and progressive… Sydenham's chorea1892 a self-limited disorder of childhood or pregnancy that is a neurological manifestation of rheumatic fever, affecting the motor activities of the… dancing-plague- = chorea, n. |
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