Chorea

Of nervous disorder and degenerative disorder.

Any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs.

This concept's ID is @1~70990

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  • orthochorea 0 facts

    A form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect.

  • tarantism 0 facts

    A nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed...

  • Sydenham's chorea 0 facts

    Chorea occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever.

  • Huntington's chorea 0 facts

    Hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia.