kawasaki disease

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Definition of kawasaki disease in English English dictionary

an illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms

{i} acute vasculitis that occurs mainly in children under 5 years of age that was first described in the late 1960's by a Japanese pediatrician named Tomisaku Kawasaki that can cause coronary artery aneurysms or heart attacks and sudden death in children (characterize by a fever that lasts more than 5 days, polymorphic rash, erythematous, dry, cracking lips, conjunctival injection, swelling of the hands and feet, irritability, adenopathy and a perineal desquamative rash)

an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause

Hyphenation

Ka·wa·sa·ki dis·ease

Turkish pronunciation

käwäsäki dîziz

Synonyms

kawaski syndrome, lymph node syndrome, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

Pronunciation

/ˌkäwäˈsäkē dəˈzēz/ /ˌkɑːwɑːˈsɑːkiː dɪˈziːz/

Etymology

() After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.