kawasaki disease

1. 1.

   an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause

   Synonymsmucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

   Broaderdisease

Questions about kawasaki disease

What does kawasaki disease mean?

kawasaki disease means "an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause".

What is another word for kawasaki disease?

Close synonyms include mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kawasaki disease a common word?

kawasaki disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.