2 example sentences using chorea.
Chorea used in a sentence
Chorea in a sentence as a noun
The word ‘chorea’ is derived from the greek word for ‘dance’ as it happens.
Huntington's disease looks nothing like dancing yet it's called chorea, which is Greek for dance. I believe that the term was historically used rather loosely for a variety of involuntary movement/neurological symptoms we might today call dyskinesia, tremors, tics, or even seizures.
Chorea definitions
noun
chorea in dogs
noun
any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs