Etymology

Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Today it means: A life-threatening condition affecting the skin in which cell death causes the epidermis to separate from the dermis. Full definition →

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The story

Named for Albert Mason Stevens and Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians who jointly published a description of the disorder in 1922.

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