Chorea

Chorea, from the Greek word for dance, is now used primarily to refer to the disease's most prominent symptom, involuntary movements of the face and body.

NYT > Home Page 2009

MCCULLOUGH LAWSON: Huntington ` s Chorea, which is a horrific disease of the nervous system, hereditary.

Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children 2004

Chorea, a movement disorder that makes you jerk around.

Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

Earthfall, the company I chair, has an ongoing relationship with Chorea in Poland.

Best bits: creative collaboration in a time of cuts 2011

It now appears that Elizabeth most likely was afflicted with adult onset Chorea, also known as Huntington's disease, a rare dominant genetic disorder that takes its name from the Greek word for dancer.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

The Chorea family was chosen because of a recurring neurological disorder.

Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003

CHOREATIC STUTTERING: This originates in an attack of Acute Chorea or St. Vitus Dance, which leaves the sufferer in a condition where involuntary and spasmodic muscular contractions, especially of the face, have become an established habit.

Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

Chorea or St. Vitus's dance follows inflammatory rheumatism, in children, in some instances.

The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

Gout; on Rheumatism and Chorea; on the Connection of Erythema Nodosum with the Rheumatic Diathesis; on Anæmia and its Consequences; on

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson

Acute Chorea (St. Vitus Dance) is frequently the cause of stuttering of a type known as Choreatic St.ttering or

Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue