1) Ailment of unknown cause 2) Chorea
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Tarantism is a form of hysteric behaviour, popularly believed to result from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a `tarantula` (Lycosa tarantula). (These spiders are different from the broad class of spiders called `Tarantulas`.) A better candidate (as the bite of Lycosa tarantula is not in fact capable of producing significant ill effect...
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irresistible urge to dance
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• (n.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.
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(from the article `tarantella`) ...women dancers frequently carry tambourines. The music is in lively 68 time. Tarantellas for two couples are also danced. The tarantella`s origin ... ...dances, religious, medical, and social influences probably interacted in response to such things as the epilepsy-like seizures of persons ... ...tar...
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<medicine> A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music. ... Alternative forms: tarentism. ... Origin: It. Tarantismo: cf. F. Tarentisme. See Tarantula...
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Tar'ant·ism noun [ Italian
tarantismo : confer French
tarentisme . See
Tarantula .]
(Medicine) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: tar′an-tizm Definitions: 1. A form of mass hysteria that originated in Taranto, Italy, in the late Middle Ages as a dancing mania to cure the madness allegedly caused by the bite of a tarantula.
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Tarantism: A disease once thought to result from the bite of the tarantula spider. This extraordinary affliction was associated with melancholy, stupor, madness and an uncontrollable desire to dance. In fact, dancing off the tarantula venom was considered the only cure. The dancing was violent and energetic and went for 3 or4 days. In the 15th to 1...
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Tarantism or tarantulism or 'dancing mania' as it was popularly known was an obscure illness which was epidemic in Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries. It manifested itself in melancholy, convulsions, screaming, foaming at the mouth and an overwhelming desire to dance or leap wildly into the air until absolutely exhausted. It was popularly b...
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[
n] - a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance
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noun a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider
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