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KAPOSI'S SARCOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kaposi's sarcoma mean?
• KAPOSI'S SARCOMA (noun)
The noun KAPOSI'S SARCOMA has 1 sense:
1. a sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS
Familiarity information: KAPOSI'S SARCOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
until 1980 Kaposi's sarcoma occurred almost exclusively with Jewish or Italian or black men
Hypernyms ("Kaposi's sarcoma" is a kind of...):
sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)
Context examples
Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancer that causes patches of abnormal tissue to grow under the skin, in the lining of the mouth, nose, and throat or in other organs.
(Kaposi's Sarcoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Viral TK is either not expressed or is expressed at very low levels in EBV- and Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV)-associated tumors and may be activated by certain chemotherapeutic agents.
(Iodine I-124 FIAU, NCI Thesaurus)
These trials include the following malignancies: Kaposi's sarcoma, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, other lymphomas, and lymphosarcomas.
(AIDS, Clinical Trials on Patients with AIDS-Related Malignancies, NCI Thesaurus)
Patients with AIDS are especially susceptible to opportunistic infections (usually pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections, tuberculosis, candida infections, and cryptococcosis), and the development of malignant neoplasms (usually non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma).
(Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
Chemotherapeutic agents such as bortezomib may induce viral thymidine kinase expression in EBV- and Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV)-associated tumors.
(Iodine I-124 FIAU, NCI Thesaurus)
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