English Explanatory Dictionary

Kawasaki disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms.

Word forms

Kawasaki disease Kawasaki's disease Kawasaki's Kawasaki

Etymology

After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.

Synonyms

Kawasaki syndrome lymph node syndrome mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

Related words

hCoV-NH COVID toes
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