Koplik's spots

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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

Koplik's spots pl (plural only)

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