Kaposi's sarcoma

[kuh-poh-seez, kap-uh-]

noun

Pathology.

1. 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

1. a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS

Word History and Origins

Origin of Kaposi's sarcoma¹

After Hungarian dermatologist Moritz Kaposi, or Moriz Kohn (1837–1902), who described it in 1872

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

Example Sentences

They have two viruses in their sights: murine leukemia virus and Kaposi's sarcoma virus.

From Science Daily

The following year, while in Tokyo, he discovered a small purple spot on his leg that, when he returned to New York, was confirmed as Kaposi’s sarcoma.

From Los Angeles Times

The ordeals of Kushner’s characters play out in Szasz’s sandbox — the sands of time, it seems, intimations of the mortality that asserts itself harrowingly in the performance of Westrate’s Prior Walter, a gay man afflicted with the literal markers of AIDS, the lesions of Kaposi’s sarcoma.

From Washington Post

He was horribly sick for the first two years, including hepatitis, herpes and mononucleosis, and was eventually diagnosed with stage-four lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma.

From Los Angeles Times

Kaposi’s sarcoma was a signal of near-certain death in the 1980s, and now the pustules of monkeypox are a harbinger of searing pain, however temporary and non-deadly.

From Washington Post