单词 | kawasaki disease |
释义 | > as lemmasKawasaki disease As a modifier, sometimes in the genitive. Designating an acute illness of infants and young children characterized by symptoms such as fever, rash, conjunctival and oral inflammation, and lymph node enlargement, associated with a vasculitis that particularly affects the coronary arteries and may result in serious heart disease; esp. in Kawasaki disease, Kawasaki syndrome.The illness is generally thought to result from an abnormal immune response to a variety of infectious agents.Also called mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. ΚΠ 1972 Acta Paediatrica Japonica 14 6/1 Other diseases showed no EB [= Epstein-Barr] virus antibody titer such as each 5 of leukemia, purpura and suspected with Kawasaki disease. 1975 Pathologia et Microbiologia 42 204 (title) Kawasaki disease (acute febrile infantile muco-cutaneous lymph node syndrome) in Japan. 1982 Sci. Amer. July 115/3 Kawasaki disease, an affliction of newborn infants that may be viral in origin, is sometimes characterized by aneurysms of the coronary arteries. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xii. 408 Schlievert and his supporters were nearly certain that Kawasaki syndrome was nothing more than the response of immune-naïve infants to the same, or similar, bacterial toxins that caused TSS [toxic shock syndrome] in adults. 2020 Times 21 May 8/2 Among a small group of children, Covid-19 seems to be the trigger for an autoimmune disease similar to Kawasaki syndrome. < as lemmas |
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