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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Huntington's chorea

also Huntington's disease, 1889, named for U.S. neurologist George Huntington (1851-1916), who described it in 1872.

Usage examples of "huntington's chorea".

And he was determined not to reproduce, since he felt that there was still a good chance that he could pass on Huntington's chorea.

Before, the epidemiology was that of vertical transmission, as in Huntington's Chorea.

It stopped, jittering back and forth in the air like a man with Huntington's chorea.