(n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
(v. i.) To do chores.
(n.) A choir or chorus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(2) A bout three in every 10 people in Britain think social workers help with household chores like cooking and cleaning, with personal care like washing and dressing, and with childcare.
(3) You can't put off any longer the chore of correcting the stack of student papers.
(4) The findings indicate excessive uses of the time and energy budget on walking trips to accomplish basic household necessities in which domestic chores consume by far the largest portion of this budget with the highest burden falling on the female members of the household.
(5) Women often work in exploitative conditions and shoulder disproportionate unpaid care responsibilities (such as child rearing, domestic chores, and caring for the sick and elderly).
(6) Time at home, alone, without chores, is still often felt as shirking responsibility.
(7) The husband will tend to all domestic chores while the wife works and vice versa.
(8) When the daycare finished, she settled into simply helping her mother with chores, focusing on raising her daughter and having late-night taco-making sessions with Theresa.
(9) Daily use involved repetitive chores and contact with glutaraldehyde.
(10) Considerable, traditional inequity in the distribution of child-care tasks and chore responsibility was noted, but women were generally satisfied with their husbands' home involvement.
(11) A working woman may face difficulties in attempting to fulfill the demands of both worlds, at home and outside, while a housewife may feel tired and irritated with her household chores and financial dependence.
(12) Residents must be relieved of time-consuming, nonmedical chores and internal medicine training must be redefined to provide experiences which are important to gain competence.
(13) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(14) Our results indicate that patients with RA experience more losses than controls in every domain of human activity and that patients with OA experience more losses in the performance of household chores, shopping and errands, and leisure activities.
(15) Instead, it began when my mother dreamed of owning a car to ease her household chores.
(16) This indicated to me that over several years, consultants at this hospital feel these summaries are a chore, and the DH directive was a waste of paper.
(17) The dishwasher Since the middle of the 19th century men and women have been devising machines to ease the endless household chores of washing clothes and dishes.
(18) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
(19) Similarly, in the village of Sarkisla, in the province of Siva in central Turkey, children are responsible for the care of animals and other chores, and have no problems in growing up.
(20) Until now he has been manipulating the rival candidates but now he needs to ensure that, if he steps aside from the day-to-day presidential chores, he and his family will be safe.
Chorea
Definition:
(n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 2nd family, several members had cerebellar signs, chorea, and dementia.
(2) The patient with hemichorea showed hypometabolism in the striatum on the contralateral side to the chorea.
(3) This treatment was given to 11 patients with Huntington's chorea (ChH), 4 with faciolingual dyskinesis (DFL), 3 with torticollis spasmodicus (TS), 3 with maladie des tics (MT) and 8 with dyskinesia following treatment with L-dopa (MP).
(4) This condition is characterized by early childhood onset of chorea which is not progressive and is compatible with a long life.
(5) Huntington's chorea is an autosomal dominant inherited disease with a chronic course and atrophy of the corpus striatum.
(6) Polyarthritis alone was present in 51 cases, carditis alone in 31, and combined carditis and polyarthritis in 28; chorea was diagnosed in 5.
(7) The occurrence of this and related syndromes suggests that inherited, slowly progressive myoclonus, chorea, and dystonia, alone or in combination, should be viewed as a spectrum of hyperkinetic involuntary movements, and that each motor component may represent variable expression of the same genetic defect.
(8) Evidence is drawn from both clinical observations and experimental studies in a spectrum of movement disorders ranging from ballism through chorea to parkinsonism.
(9) Similar dystonic-dyskinetic attacks, but of long duration and unresponsive to medication, were also observed in two other patients, in one 20 years before the onset of clinically apparent Huntington's chorea.
(10) This case is consistent with the existence of a recurrent syndrome of hormone-induced chorea.
(11) A 79-year-old woman had rheumatic chorea that persisted after age 5 years and increased in severity at age 73.
(12) This study strongly suggests that valproate is an effective drug in the treatment of Sydenham's chorea.
(13) The impression gained from the literature that Huntington's chorea rarely occurs in Blacks is strengthened.
(14) Dopamine antagonists are effective in suppressing hyperkinetic symptoms in patients with tardive dyskinesia, spontaneous oral dyskinesia, Huntington's chorea, and Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome.
(15) TD and L-DOPA-induced chorea may be more pathophysiologically similar to each other than either is to Huntington's chorea.
(16) The hereditary choreas are studied in Liège since twenty-five years.
(17) The prevalence of Huntington's chorea in East Anglia was sought by following up a series of different sources, both in hospitals and in the community.
(18) Significantly low values for threonine, alanine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine and histidine were found in the Huntington's chorea patients.
(19) For example, some so-called senile movement disorders, such as senile tremor and senile chorea, may relate to alterations in dopaminergic transmission with age, as might the general findings of increased slowing of movements and mildly increased rigidity with age, although it is not clear how common some of these changes are in the medically healthy elderly.
(20) Noteworthy are its actions on cholinergic neurons that degenerate in Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's chorea.