electric chorea
Medicine (now historical )
noun
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).
Origin
Mid 19th century. After Italian chorea electrica.
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