CHOREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chorea mean? 

• CHOREA (noun)
  The noun CHOREA has 2 senses:

1. chorea in dogs

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

  Familiarity information: CHOREA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chorea in dogs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

canine chorea; chorea

Hypernyms ("chorea" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("chorea" is a kind of...):

degenerative disorder (condition leading to progressive loss of function)

nervous disorder; neurological disease; neurological disorder (a disorder of the nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chorea"):

orthochorea (a form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect)

Saint Vitus dance; St. Vitus dance; Sydenham's chorea (chorea occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever)

tarantism (a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider)

Huntington's chorea; Huntington's disease (hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia)

 Context examples 

Mutations in the gene are associated with hypothyroidism, neonatal respiratory distress, and both benign hereditary chorea and choreoathetosis.

(NKX2-1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Were dyskinesias (chorea or dystonia) present during examination?

(MDS-UPDRS - Dyskinesias During Exam, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called: HD, Huntington's chorea

(Huntington's Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)