rhythmic chorea
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Related to rhythmic chorea: athetosis, Chorea gravidarum
rhyth·mic cho·re·a
patterned movement in conversion hysteria.
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choreomania
(1) Chorea.(2) A term of largely historical interest for a condition first recognised during the Middle Ages and characterised by choreiform spasms that occurred in large closed communities, and is now thought to have been a mass hysterical conversion reaction.
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