Chorea

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chorea \Cho*re"a\ n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? dance.] (Med.)
     St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive
     twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or
     limbs.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chorea
       n 1: chorea in dogs [syn: {canine chorea}]
       2: any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized
          by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "chorea":
     MS, ague, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain disease, bumpiness,
     cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chattering, cold shivers,
     emotional disorder, epilepsy, falling sickness, fits and starts,
     glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, ischialgia,
     jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, joltiness, migraine,
     multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuritis,
     neuropathy, organic psychosis, palsy, polyneuritis,
     pressure neuropathy, priapism, quaking, quavering, quivering,
     radiculitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shakes, shaking,
     shaking palsy, shingles, shivering, shivers, shuddering, spasms,
     spastic paralysis, succussion, the jerks, tic douloureux,
     toxic psychosis, trembling, tremulousness, vibration