KAWASAKI DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kawasaki disease mean? 

• KAWASAKI DISEASE (noun)
  The noun KAWASAKI DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause

  Familiarity information: KAWASAKI DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAWASAKI DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Kawasaki disease; mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

Hypernyms ("Kawasaki disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

 Context examples 

Kawasaki disease can't be passed from one child to another.

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

They also tested CSF samples taken from 11 adults with central nervous system conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, and from 10 children with Kawasaki disease, none of whom had AFM.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

No one knows what causes Kawasaki disease.

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

None of the CSF samples from children with Kawasaki disease had antibodies that reacted with any enterovirus.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

Kawasaki disease is a rare childhood disease.

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Kawasaki disease can't be prevented.

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)