Meanings
alternative Kawasaki's disease · alternative Kawasaki's · alternative Kawasaki
- uncountablemedicineAn illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms.
Synonyms: Kawasaki syndrome, lymph node syndrome, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms.
More synonyms by meaning
nounan acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 川崎病
- 川崎病 (chuānqíbìng)illness
Dutch ziekte van Kawasaki
- ziekte van Kawasakiillness
Finnish Kawasakin tauti
- Kawasakin tautiillness
Polish choroba Kawasakiego
- choroba Kawasakiegoillness
Cite this entry
Kawasaki disease. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kawasaki%20disease
“Kawasaki disease.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kawasaki%20disease. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kawasaki disease,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kawasaki%20disease.
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