In collateral chorisis the parts are side by side. — In parallel or median chorisis they are one in front
of another.
Chorist
(Cho"rist) n. [F. choriste.] A singer in a choir; a chorister. [R.]
Chorister
(Chor"is*ter) n. [See Chorus.]
1. One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden.
2. One who leads a choir in church music. [U. S.]
Choristic
(Cho*ris"tic) a. Choric; choral. [R.]
Chorograph
(Cho"ro*graph) n. [Gr. place + -graph.] An instrument for constructing triangles in marine
surveying, etc.
Chorographer
(Cho*rog"ra*pher) n.
1. One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.
2. A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.
Chorographical
(Cho`ro*graph"ic*al) a. Pertaining to chorography. — Cho`ro*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Chorography
(Cho*rog"ra*phy) n. [L. chorographia, Gr. place + to describe.] the mapping or description
of a region or district.
The chorography of their provinces.
Sir T. Browne.
Choroid
(Cho"roid) a. [gr. chorion + form.] (Anat.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of
the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. — n. The choroid coat of the eye. See
Eye.
Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood
vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.
Choroidal
(Cho*roid"al) a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.
Chorology
(Cho*rol"o*gy) n. [Gr. place + -logy.] (Biol.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution
of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
Its distribution or chorology.
Huxley.
Chorometry
(Cho*rom"e*try) n. [Gr. place + -metry.] The art of surveying a region or district.
Chorus
(Cho"rus) n.; pl. Choruses [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a
band of dancers and singers. Gr. . See Choir.]
1. (Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers.
The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.
Dryden.
2. (Gr. Drama) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and
to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that
which was thus sung by the chorus.
What the lofty, grave tragedians taught
In chorus or iambic.
Milton.
