moyamoya
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Etymology
[edit]From Japanese もやもや (moyamoya).
Noun
[edit]moyamoya (uncountable)
- (medicine) A disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted.
- 2014 December 13, Hisashi Makino et al., “Decreased levels of circulating CD34+ cells are associated with coronary heart disease in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes”, in Journal of Diabetes Investigation[1], volume 6, :
- We previously reported that patients of moyamoya disease showed high CD34 + cell levels (2.28 ± 0.53 cells/μL) compared with control subjects (0.89 ± 0.07 cells/μL) 9 .