English Explanatory Dictionary

Stevens-Johnson syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A life-threatening condition affecting the skin in which cell death causes the epidermis to separate from the dermis.

Word forms

Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Etymology

Named for Albert Mason Stevens and Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians who jointly published a description of the disorder in 1922.

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