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What is a chorea?

What is a chorea? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.
  2. (medicine) Any of the various diseases of the nervous system characterized by involuntary muscular movements of the face and extremities; St. Vitus's dance.
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Any imbalance in these neuro-modulators causes involuntary movements like chorea and tremors.
The criteria list major manifestations that include carditis, erythema marginatum, polyarthritis, subcutaneous nodules, and Sydenham's chorea.
It may be a very large proportion in the case of a presymptomatic diagnosis of a dominant single gene disease such as Huntington's chorea.
Internally, it has been occasionally given in hooping-cough, chorea, and a few other nervous diseases.
Other causes of apparent clumsiness include visual impairment, orthopedic disorders, mild cerebral palsy, hereditary ataxia, and congenital chorea.
They had slower reaction times for visual and auditory stimuli, as well as subtle chorea, dystonia, and nystagmus.

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