mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
Medicine
noun
An acute illness of infants and young children characterized by fever, cervical lymphadenopathy, erythematous rash, and reddening, oedema, and desquamation of the hands and feet, and associated with a systemic vasculitis that may result in significant coronary artery lesions; also called Kawasaki disease.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The Lancet.
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