Such movements are referred to as chorea (koh-ree'ah; "dance" G). From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
HD affects muscle co-ordination, often causing involuntary writhing movements called chorea, and it leads to cognitive decline. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
It was once called Huntington's "chorea", from a Greek word for dance. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
He had been labeled with a number of interesting diagnoses, such as chorea, epilepsy, myotonia, hysteria, and neurasthenia. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Of the treatment of chorea there is no need to speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Of this cerebral irritability chorea is the expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
There is some doubtful evidence of the value of the alkaloid in chorea. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Your chances of succumbing to Huntington's chorea or some other disease?. From Wordnik.com. ['What Are You Optimistic About?'] Reference
Patients typically suffer involuntary writhing movements known as chorea. From Wordnik.com. [Fear of insurance penalties keeps Huntington's sufferers in the shadows] Reference
Hun-tington's chorea does not appear until adult life (between 30 and 50). From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
These probably were not true chorea epidemics, but had roots in abnormal psychology. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
This was one of the most severe and obstinate cases of chorea that I have ever met with. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
It is for this reason that Sydenham's chorea has the common name of "St. Vitus's dance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Hinc bicolor chorea est latronum, expressaque tota in Laberintheis vita hominum tenebris. From Wordnik.com. [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference
Epilepsy, chorea, insanity, are also conditions which render artificial feeding necessary. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
With out a doubt CSS and the worst kind Insertus Cranius in Rectumus or bean counters chorea. From Wordnik.com. [The New Pandemic] Reference
Rheumatism, and chorea, association between characteristics in childhood subacute treatment of. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
It is a matter of pure, gambling-casino luck that there are no carriers of Huntington's chorea today. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
In fact, of all the horrible diseases known to Mandarax, Hunrington's chorea may have been the worst. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
Back then, Huntington's chorea was one of the thousand most common diseases which Mandarax could diagnose. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
How does it insure itself against the risk of their defective eyesight, chorea, deafness, or general debility?. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
You know that the scary-looking man the black kid visits in a hospital is the real Woody Guthrie, dying of Huntington's chorea. From Wordnik.com. [The Roles They Are A-Changin’] Reference
It is certain that there is a close association between rheumatism in childhood and the common nervous affection known as chorea. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Others suspect that antisemitic taunts by her schoolmates caused a severe nervous disorder (chorea minor) in the sensitive child. From Wordnik.com. [Else Lasker-Sch��ler.] Reference
In adults, chorea is perhaps more obviously associated with mental stress of all sorts and with states of excitement and agitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
And he was determined not to reproduce, since he felt that there was still a good chance that he could pass on Huntington's chorea. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
In New York City one child in ninety-one already examined has had the form of nervous disease known as St. Vitus's Dance, or chorea. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
Evidence obtained from clinical observations has tended of late to locate the pathological lesions of chorea in the cerebral cortex. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885] Reference
In most cases the child grows thin and weak; in most cases he becomes restless, irritable, and unhappy; often there is definite chorea. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Treats chorea, the involuntary muscle movements that occur in Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disease affecting 30,000 Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Push to Cure Rare Diseases] Reference
The two main components of LID are chorea and dystonia. From Wordnik.com. [WebWire | Recent Headlines] Reference
This form of chorea is almost always a disease of childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
I started looking up huntingtons chorea and it didnt effect me. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
ADX48621 shows efficacy on both chorea and dystonia in PD-LID model. From Wordnik.com. [WebWire | Recent Headlines] Reference
Rilliet and Barthez recommend the following potion for infantile chorea. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
It is sometimes used as an antispasmodic in hysteria, epilepsy and chorea. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
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