Kawasaki disease

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Kawasaki disease

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After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.

noun Kawasaki's disease · Kawasaki's · Kawasaki

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

    Similar: Kawasaki syndrome, lymph node syndrome, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

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noun illness

中文川崎病 chuānqíbìng

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@misc{kawasaki_disease_2026,
  title = {Kawasaki disease},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kawasaki%20disease},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}