Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keshan disease

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ke-shan dis-ease
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of coxsackievirus.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease."

Etymology

Named after Keshan (克山 (Kèshān)) County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does keshan disease mean?: A congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of coxsackievirus.
Where does keshan disease come from?: Named after Keshan (克山 (Kèshān)) County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.

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