Chorea (or choreia, occasionally) is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term chorea...
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Sydenham's chorea, also known as rheumatic chorea, is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily affecting the face,...
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Huntington's disease (redirect from Huntington's chorea)
Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that is mostly inherited. The earliest symptoms...
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Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc, also called choreoacanthocytosis) is a rare hereditary disease caused by a mutation in a gene that directs structural proteins...
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Benign hereditary chorea (BHC), also known as benign familial chorea, is a rare autosomal dominant neurogenetic syndrome. It typically presents itself...
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Look up chorea or choreá in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chorea is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder. Chorea or Choreia may also refer to:...
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Morvan's syndrome (redirect from Fibrillary chorea)
peculiar motor disturbances, which Morvan reported under the term “fibrillary chorea” but which are best described in modern terms as neuromyotonic discharges...
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Neuroacanthocytosis (redirect from Chorea-acanthocytosis syndrome)
neuroacanthocytosis syndromes, in which acanthocytes are a typical feature, are chorea acanthocytosis and McLeod syndrome. Acanthocytes are seen less frequently...
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Dicranomyia chorea is a Palearctic species of cranefly in the family Limoniidae. It is found in a wide range of habitats and micro habitats: in earth rich...
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Choreia (redirect from Chorea (dance))
Choreia (Ancient Greek: χορεία, romanized: choreía) is a circle dance accompanied by singing (see Greek chorus, choros), in ancient Greece. Homer refers...
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Multiple sclerosis (redirect from Rhythmic chorea)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This damage disrupts...
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Chorea gravidarum is a rare type of chorea which presents with involuntary abnormal movement, characterized by abrupt, brief, nonrhythmic, nonrepetitive...
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Lonchaea chorea is a species of fly in the family Lonchaeidae. It is found in the Palearctic. The larva develops in cow dung. For terms see Morphology...
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Hyperkinesia (section Chorea)
conjunction with chorea and dystonia. When combined with chorea, as in cerebral palsy, the term "choreoathetosis" is frequently used. Chorea is a continuous...
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named after Saint Vitus, may refer to: Chorea, a movement disorder, specifically either: Sydenham's chorea Huntington disease Dancing mania, a Medieval...
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neuropathy, cardiomyopathy, and hemolytic anemia. Other features include limb chorea, facial tics, other oral movements (lip and tongue biting), seizures, a...
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differs from chorea in that the movements occur in the proximal limbs whereas in chorea the limb movements are in the distal limbs. Also in chorea the movements...
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by involuntary muscle movements, including movements similar to tics or chorea and diminished voluntary movements. Dyskinesia can be anything from a slight...
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during the medieval era. This psychogenic illness could have created a chorea (from the Greek khoreia meaning "to dance"), a situation comprising random...
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name "Saint Vitus Dance" was given to the neurological disorder Sydenham's chorea. It also led to Vitus being considered the patron saint of dancers and of...
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During this period, he was able to better observe the cases of hereditary chorea, which he had seen for the first time with his grandfather and father. In...
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Food and Drug Administration approved the use of tetrabenazine to treat chorea associated with Huntington's disease. Although other drugs had been used...
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as Sydenham chorea. Dancing mania has also been known as epidemic chorea: 125 and epidemic dancing. A disease of the nervous system, chorea is characterized...
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Basal ganglia disease (section Sydenham's chorea)
originally designed to treat movement disorders are being developed. Sydenham's chorea is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily...
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sticking out the tongue or smacking the lips. Additionally, there may be chorea or athetosis. In about 20% of people with TD, the disorder interferes with...
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Stereotypic movement disorder F98.5 Huntington's disease (Huntington's chorea) 333.4 G10 Dystonia G24 Drug induced dystonia G24.0 Idiopathic familial...
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Phasia pusilla (redirect from Hyalomya chorea)
Meigen, 1824 Synonyms Hyalomya carbonaria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Hyalomya chorea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 Hyalomya corinna Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Phasia...
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thought to be hereditary, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, Huntington's chorea and "imbecility". Sterilization was also mandated for chronic alcoholism...
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Huntington's disease (HD) in that they typically produce a combination of chorea, cognitive decline or dementia and behavioural or psychiatric problems....
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