Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun huntington's_chorea

1 sense of huntington's chorea

Sense 1
Huntington's chorea, Huntington's disease -- (hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia)
       => chorea -- (any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs)
       => autosomal dominant disease, autosomal dominant disorder -- (a disease caused by a dominant mutant gene on an autosome)
       => monogenic disorder, monogenic disease -- (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)