choreomania

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choreomania

a mania for dancing.
See also: Dancing, Manias
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Sha hopes that families sharing personal stories about the illness will dispel myths about the condition, which was known as the "dancing disease" due to the jerky movements it can cause.
Willibrord became the patron saint of patients with neurologic diseases: paresis, epilepsy, and what was then known as choreomania or the "dancing disease," an epidemic of strange behavior of crowds.