chorea: Meaning and Definition of

cho•re•a

1. any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
2. Also calledsuch a disease occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever.
3. a disease of the central nervous system caused by bacterial or organic degeneration, most common in dogs following canine distemper, characterized by irregular, jerky, involuntary muscular movements.