English Explanatory Dictionary

Koplik's spots

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Clustered white lesions on the buccal mucosa, a prodromic viral enanthem of measles.

Word forms

Koplik's spots

Etymology

Named after Henry Koplik (1858-1927), an American pediatrician who published a short description of them in 1896.

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