Burkitt's lymphoma

American  

[bur-kits lim-foh-muh] / ˈbɜr kɪts lɪmˈfoʊ mə /

noun

Pathology.

1. a type of poorly differentiated malignant lymphoma, mainly afflicting children in central Africa, characterized by a large, bone-destroying lesion of the jaw, an abdominal mass, or more diffuse disease: believed to be associated with Epstein-Barr virus.

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Etymology

Origin of Burkitt's lymphoma

Named after Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–93), Irish physician, who identified the malignancy in Uganda in 1957

Example Sentences

Destiny Clark alleged that her son Ezra developed Burkitt’s lymphoma after he was exposed to Roundup which she sprayed on weeds at the family residence.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2021

Miyah fought Burkitt’s lymphoma, a rare and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2015

The Wizards point guard attended the fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in the memory of Damiyah Telemaque-Nelson, who passed away from Burkitt’s lymphoma just shy of her sixth birthday last December.

From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2015

A cancer of the lymphatic system called Burkitt's lymphoma occurs after a chunk of chromosome 8 ends up on chromosome 14 and vice versa.

From Nature • Feb. 9, 2011

Grufferman too was skeptical -- until examination of the slides showed that one patient indeed had Burkitt's lymphoma.

From Time Magazine Archive