Stevens-Johnson syndrome

English

Etymology

Named for Albert Mason Stevens and Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians who jointly published a description of the disorder in 1922.

Noun

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A life-threatening condition affecting the skin in which cell death causes the epidermis to separate from the dermis.

Translations

Translations
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.