| 单词 | electric chorea |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselectric chorea electric chorea n. [after Italian chorea electrica (A. Dubini 1846, in Ann. universali di med. 107 7)] Medicine (now historical) a disorder characterized by sudden muscle spasms originally likened to those produced by an electric shock, typically accompanied by progressive paralysis and muscle wasting (now thought to have been caused by some kind of encephalitis or meningitis). ΚΠ 1858 Half-yearly Abstr. Med. Sci. 26 248 There may be some analogy, so far as causes are concerned, between electric chorea and raphania. 1887 H. C. Wood Dis. & their Diagnosis ii. 159 Electric chorea... In this disorder the whole body, or any portion of it, is the seat of more or less rapidly repeated, violent muscular spasms, resembling those produced by a sudden severe electric shock... Electric chorea may be a symptom of chronic alcoholism. 1957 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 93 939 The irregular movement is more rapid and finer in range and can be more accurately compared to the movements of electric chorea. 1998 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 107 181/1 He [sc. Dubini] called it ‘electric chorea’ and the disorder he described was probably related to an infection. < as lemmas |
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