(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.
Palsy
Definition:
(n.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.
(v. t.) To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(2) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(3) The maternal age of children with CONH was significantly less than for the cerebral-palsied children which, in turn, was significantly less than for the FAS children.
(4) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
(5) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(6) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
(7) Auditory brain stem potentials (ABP) were recorded in 27 patients with Bell's palsy during the early phase of the disease and 1-3 months later.
(8) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(9) The cavernous sinus is often involved pathologically, which can cause ocular motor nerve palsies with or without facial sensory disturbances.
(10) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
(11) Postoperatively, 12 cases of miosis and one of asymptomatic phrenic nerve palsy were observed, but there were no serious complications.
(12) In 3 of the 4 cases, the palsy was ipsilateral to the side of the temporal lobectomy.
(13) Musculoskeletal manifestations of cerebral palsy (CP) change with growth, necessitating orthopaedic management.
(14) A case of acute angle-closure glaucoma precipitated by oculomotor nerve palsy in a patient with shallow anterior chambers is reported.
(15) Results obtained were as follows; 1) both R1 and R2 disappeared or prolonged in latencies by nuclear as well as peripheral facial nerve palsy, since the facial nerve was the final common pathway.
(16) A case of a patient with right temporal bone involvement with facial palsy, right parietal lobe infarctions and elevated anticardiolipin antibody titers is presented.
(17) After two weeks, her right-sided palsy and parkinsonism had disappeared, and neuropsychological deficits improved.
(18) Bilateral facial palsy occurred only in children with Lyme borreliosis.
(19) The children in the 1966 cohort were followed until the age of 14 and the incidences of cerebral palsy (CP) and mental retardation (IQ less than 71) were 3.2 times higher among the unwanted children than among the wanted ones.
(20) At 47-year-old right peripheral facial nerve palsy developed transiently with interstitial keratitis and episcleritis of the both eyes.