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| Syd·en·ham's cho·re·a [ sídd'nəmz kə r ə, sd'n hàmz kə r ə ] |
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neurological disease: a neurological disease of children and pregnant women, sometimes following rheumatic fever, in which those affected experience involuntary jerking movements of the body.
Former name St. Vitus's dance
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| [Late 19th century. After Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), English physician] |
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