chorea in English

noun
1
a neurological disorder characterized by jerky involuntary movements affecting especially the shoulders, hips, and face.
The hallmarks of rheumatic fever include arthritis, carditis, cutaneous disease, chorea , and subsequent acquired valvular disease.

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1. I have huntington's chorea.

2. Baser treats patients with Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia, Huntington’s chorea, involuntary movements, and chorea

3. No, case reports have referred to chorea.

4. Chorea is a movement problem that occurs in many different diseases and conditions. Chorea itself isn’t life-threatening, but it could be a sign of a neurological disease such as Huntington’s disease

5. Dancing mania Sydenham's chorea Tanganyika laughter epidemic Tarantism Viegas, Jennifer (1 August 2008).

6. This condition is frequently accompanied by CHOREA, where it is referred to as choreoAthetosis.

7. It is mainly indicated for cerebral disorders, such as hemiplegia, numbness, aphasia, dizziness and vertigo, tinnitus, chorea, etc.

8. Slow, twisting, or continued movements (chorea, Athetosis, or dystonia) Sudden jerking movements (myoclonus, ballismus) Uncontrollable repetitive movements (asterixis or tremor) Causes

9. Although mechanism of this movement is still far from established, Athetosis is clinically differentiated from chorea and dystonia

10. Consistent with this shared etymology, chorea, Athetosis, and ballism represent a spectrum of phenomenologically related movement disorders with shared pathophysiology and overlapping etiologies.

11. ChoreoAthetosis is the occurrence of involuntary movements in a combination of chorea (irregular migrating contractions) and Athetosis (twisting and writhing).

12. The terms “chorea, “Athetosis,” and “ballism” are all derived from Greek words meaning “to dance,” “not fixed,” and “to throw,” respectively

13. Ataxic gaits (sensory ataxia, cerebellar ataxia, chorea, and multiinfarct gaits) can be associated with sensory disturbances such as vision and proprioception (awareness of the position and movements of limbs) disorders.

14. The neurologic findings of movement disorder (Blepharospasm, grimacing, facial and neck dystonia, tremors, chorea) and ataxia (gait ataxia, dysarthria) correspond to regions of iron deposition in the brain

15. Arthralgia Sharp, severe pain, extending along a nerve or group of nerves, experienced in a joint and/or joints. Mentioned in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Ross River Virus, Sydenham's Chorea Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

16. With regard to neurological features, apart from the signs of chorea, Akinesic rigidity and tic-like hyperkinesias with transition into stereotypes and primitive motor patterns were observed, as well as an apallic syndrome in the terminal phase

17. Athetosis •Athetosis is a slow continuous stream of sinuous, writhing movements, typically of the hands and feet •Causes - dyskinetic motor fluctuation in PD - athetoid cerebral palsy •If Athetosis becomes faster, it sometimes blends with chorea i.e

18. Athetosis (slow chorea) is nonrhythmic, slow, writhing, sinuous movements predominantly in distal muscles, often alternating with postures of the proximal limbs. Hemiballismus is unilateral rapid, nonrhythmic, nonsuppressible, wildly flinging movement of the proximal arm and/or leg; rarely, such movement occurs bilaterally (ballismus).

19. Total erythrocyte sialic acid and lipid-extractable sialic acid were estimated in material obtained from 14 normal subjects, and from 8 parents and 1 sibling of patients suffering from late infantile or juvenile forms of amaurotic idiocy, from 1 patient in the terminal phase of the disease and 2 patients with Huntington's chorea.