Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

koplik's spots

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ko-p-lik's spots
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Clustered white lesions on the buccal mucosa, a prodromic viral enanthem of measles.

Etymology

Named after Henry Koplik (1858-1927), an American pediatrician who published a short description of them in 1896.

Questions

What does koplik's spots mean?: Clustered white lesions on the buccal mucosa, a prodromic viral enanthem of measles.
Where does koplik's spots come from?: Named after Henry Koplik (1858-1927), an American pediatrician who published a short description of them in 1896.

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