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Kaposi's sarcoma
[ kuh-poh-seez, kap-uh- ]
noun
, Pathology.
- a cancer of connective tissue characterized by painless, purplish-red to brown plaquelike or pimply lesions on the extremities, trunk, or head, and sometimes involving the lungs, viscera, etc., occurring in a mild form among older men of certain Mediterranean and central African populations and in a more virulent form among persons with AIDS.
Kaposi's sarcoma
/ kæˈpəʊsɪz /
noun
- a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Kaposi's sarcoma1
After Hungarian dermatologist Moritz Kaposi, or Moriz Kohn (1837–1902), who described it in 1872
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Kaposi's sarcoma1
C20: named after Moritz Kohn Kaposi (1837–1902), Austrian dermatologist who first described the sores that characterize the disease
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