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Sydenham’s chorea

Syd·en·ham's cho·re·a [ sídd'nəmz kə r ə, sd'n hàmz kə r ə ]


noun 
Definition:
 
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


[Late 19th century. After Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), English physician]
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