choreoid


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choreoid

(ˈkɒrɪɔɪd)
adj
(Pathology) another word for choreiform
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(1, 4, 5) Instead, the production of involuntary movements met with serious difficulty, and only "choreoid hyperkinesia" as a model of ballism was succeeded by partial destruction of the contralateral subthalamic nucleus, (6) and athetosis by partial destruction of the anterior and posterior putamen in infant monkeys.
(1950) Analysis of choreoid hyperkinesia in the rhesus monkey.
Functions and dysfunctions of the basal ganglia in humans
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