Kawasaki disease

English

Etymology

After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.

Noun

Kawasaki disease (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) an illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms.

Synonyms
  • (medicine): Kawaski syndrome, lymph node syndrome, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

See also
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