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

Translations

illness

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 川崎病 (chuānqíbìng)

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• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: Kawasakin tauti

See also

• Kawasaki disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia