Medical Definition of Choreiform
1. Resembling chorea. Synonym: choreiform. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choreiform
Literary usage of Choreiform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the practice of medicine: Prepared Especially for Students by Arthur Albert Stevens (1908)
"choreiform Movements.—These are coarse, jerky, irregular, involuntary movements
which ... choreiform ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1899)
"In a third group he finds that in the absence of choreiform movements of the
right side, ... In this patient the choreiform movements were very severe, ..."
3. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders, John Herr Musser (1907)
"The diagnosis is readily assured by the rhythmic character of the movements
occurring in an hysteric temperament. choreiform DISORDERS. ..."
4. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"Choreas, choreiform Movements, and Tremors.—We would like to glance, in this
paragraph, at the general group of involuntary movements which may be observed ..."
5. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1906)
"The Breck feeder (page 260) is also useful in these cases. choreiform DISEASES.
Hereditary or Huntington's Chorea.—This form of chorea differs from ..."
6. The Treatment of Disease: A Manual of Practical Medicine by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1907)
"Two to five drachms (8.0-20.0) of a 2 percent, solution may be injected into one
of the superficial veins of the arms. choreiform AFFECTIONS. ..."
7. Golden rules of pediatrics: Aphorisms, Observations, and Precepts on the by John Zahorsky (1906)
"TREMOR, choreiform MOVEMENTS Tremor occurs in infants exhausted from a ...
The most common cause of choreiform movements is chorea minor. ..."
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