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- noun medicine an illness of
childhood that causesfever ,lymphadenopathy , elevatedplatelet count, and a variety of other symptoms.
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- noun an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause
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After Tomisaku Kawasaki, who first identified the disease.
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