Kawasaki disease

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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.

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See also

  • hCoV-NH (a virus thought associated with Kawasaki disease)
  • COVID toes (COVID-19 Kawasaki-like syndrome)