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n. Any of various disorders of the nervous system marked by involuntary, jerky movements, especially of the arms, legs, and face, and by incoordination.

n. An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.

n. Any of the various diseases of the nervous system characterized by involuntary muscular movements of the face and extremities; St. Vitus's dance.

n. St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

n. A nervous disease, usually occurring before puberty, marked by irregular and involuntary motions of one or more limbs and of the face and trunk, which, however, cease in sleep. Its morbid anatomy is undetermined. Also called St. Vitus's dance.—

n. [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of coleopterous insects.

n. Same as paralysis agitans.

n. any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs

n. chorea in dogs

"Convulsive motions agitate his legs, so that though he wills it ever so much, he cannot by any power of his mind stop their motion, (as in that odd disease called chorea sancti viti), but he is perpetually dancing; he is not at liberty in this action, but under as much necessity of moving, as a stone that falls, or a tennis-ball struck with a racket."

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