n. 【医学】塔兰台拉毒蛛病,跳舞病〔一种臆病,过去认为系受塔兰台拉毒蜘蛛所致,可以跳舞来医治〕。 ★易与 chorea 混同。
a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider
Tarantism is an alleged, possibly deadly envenomation, 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".