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Chorea

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Ceaseless rapid complex body movements that look well coordinated and purposeful but are, in fact, involuntary.</P> Chorea was thought suggestive of a grotesque dance.

The term 'chorea' is derived from the Greek word 'choreia' for dancing (as is choreography).

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