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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Ka•po′si's sarco′ma (kə pō′sēz, kap′ə-),USA pronunciation [Pathol.]- Pathologya cancer of connective tissue characterized by painless, purplish-red to brown plaquelike or pimply lesions on the extremities, trunk, or head, and sometimes involving the lungs, viscera, etc., occurring in a mild form among older men of certain Mediterranean and central African populations and in a more virulent form among persons with AIDS.
- after Hungarian dermatologist Moritz Kaposi, or Moriz Kohn (1837–1902), who described it in 1872
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Kaposi's sarcoma /kæˈpəʊsɪz/ n - a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
Etymology: 20th Century: named after Moritz Kohn Kaposi (1837–1902), Austrian dermatologist who first described the sores that characterize the disease |