Definition of Choreoid

1. resembling chorea [adj] - See also: chorea

Medical Definition of Choreoid

1. Resembling chorea. Synonym: choreiform. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Choreoid

choreo-
choreoathetoid
choreoathetosis
choreograph
choreographed
choreographer
choreographers
choreographic
choreographically
choreographies
choreographing
choreographist
choreographists
choreographs
choreography
choreoid (current term)
choreology
choreophrasia
chorepiscopal
chores
choreus
choreuses
choria
chorial
choriamb
choriambi
choriambic
choriambics
choriambs
choriambus

Literary usage of Choreoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Magoffin French, Charles Spencer Williamson (1908)
"choreoid AFFECTIONS. Chronic chorea (Huntington's chorea) is a disease of adult life, usually appearing after the thirtieth year, sometimes inherited, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"I have reason to believe that some of the general and prolonged choreoid disturbances which we see now and then from birth, are due to, or, rather, ..."

3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"Dr. Mitchell further believes thai some of the general and prolonged choreoid disturbances which are seen now and then from birth are due to, or in some way ..."

4. Suggestions to medical writers by George Milbry Gould (1900)
"... or choreoid, when we mean the ocular structure. We need choreoid for the chorea-signification, ..."

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