Kawasaki disease

English

Alternative forms

• Kawasaki's disease, Kawasaki's, Kawasaki

Etymology

After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.

Noun

Kawasaki disease (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• (medicine): Kawasaki syndrome, lymph node syndrome, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

Translations

illness

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 川崎病 (chuānqíbìng)

• Dutch: ziekte van Kawasaki f
• Finnish: Kawasakin tauti

See also

• hCoV-NH (a virus thought associated with Kawasaki disease)
• COVID toes (COVID-19 Kawasaki-like syndrome)