Definitions for chorea

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chorea cho·re·a

Spelling: [kuh-ree-uh, kaw-, koh-]

IPA: /kəˈri ə, kɔ-, koʊ-/

Chorea is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in chorea (acehor).

Definitions for chorea

noun

1. any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
2. Also called St. Vitus's dance. such a disease occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever.
3. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the central nervous system caused by bacterial or organic degeneration, most common in dogs following canine distemper, characterized by irregular, jerky, involuntary muscular movements.

Origin of chorea

1680-90; Greek choreía a dance, equivalent to chor(ós) chorus + -eia -y³

Examples for chorea

Sometimes he was seized by a fit of chorea, followed by deep sleep.

Stoneheng, otherwise called chorea Gigantum, leauing his sonne Arthur to succed him.

This was one of the most severe and obstinate cases of chorea that I have ever met with.

In the opinion of many, Bergeron's chorea is secondary to gastric disturbance.

These mild forms are often found in the history of cases of chorea.

There is some doubtful evidence of the value of the alkaloid in chorea.

chorea Gigantum to prove that Stonehenge was built by the Danes.

Every one who had seen her considered the condition as chorea.

Internally, it has been occasionally given in hooping-cough, chorea, and a few other nervous diseases.

The use of the gum lancet relieved the convulsion, and there was no return of the chorea.