Crossword-Solution: CHOREA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chorea | n. | St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHOREA | anagram | ARCHEO, HORACE, OCHREA, ORACHE, ROACHE, ROCHEA |
We have 12 clues for the answer “CHOREA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nervous ailment. | 1 answer |
| Nervous disorder | 1 answer |
| Nervous system disorder | 1 answer |
| RHEUMATIC fever, form of | 1 answer |
| Saint Vitas’ dance | 1 answer |
| Saint Vitus' dance | 1 answer |
| St. Vitus' dance | 1 answer |
| St. Vitus's dance | 1 answer |
| Vitas’ dance Saint | 1 answer |
| Neurological disorder | 2 answers |
| A DISORDER OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CHARACTERIZED BY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONVULSIONS | 11 answers |
| ANY OF SEVERAL DEGENERATIVE NERVOUS DISORDERS CHARACTERIZED BY SPASMODIC MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY AND LIMBS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEZCMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CHOREA (5)
Edge speaks of a case of chorea in pregnancy in a woman of twenty-seven, not interrupting pregnancy or retarding safe delivery.
Hammond also speaks of a young lady subject to chorea whose insensible perspiration had an odor of pineapples; a hypochondriac gentleman under his care smelled of violets.
Finally chorea developed as a complication, limited for a time to the left side, but shortly spreading to the right, where rheumatic inflammation was attacking the joints.
The last, however, quickly subsided, leaving a general, though mild chorea and a permanently damaged heart.
John, the dancing mania, etc.; although these various functional phenomena of the nervous system have been called chorea, they bear very little resemblance to what, at the present day, is called by this name.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1957–2015).