Keshan disease

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Etymology[edit]

Named after Keshan (克山 (Kèshān)) County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.

Noun[edit]

Keshan disease (uncountable)

  1. A congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of Coxsackievirus.
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