huntington's chorea

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   hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia

   SynonymsHuntington's disease

   Broaderchoreaautosomal dominant diseasemonogenic disorder

Questions about huntington's chorea

What does huntington's chorea mean?

huntington's chorea means "hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia".

What is another word for huntington's chorea?

Close synonyms include Huntington's disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is huntington's chorea a common word?

huntington's chorea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.