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kawasaki disease

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.03 in modern English

Syllables
kawasak-i dis-ease
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Etymology

After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Kawasaki's disease (alternative) Kawasaki's (alternative) Kawasaki (alternative)

Phrases

hCoV-NH COVID toes

Frequently Paired Words

hCoV-NH COVID toes

Synonyms

Kawasaki syndrome lymph node syndrome mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

Questions

What does kawasaki disease mean?
An illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms.
Where does kawasaki disease come from?
After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.

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