mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

noun

variants or less commonly mucocutaneous lymph node disease

: kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease (KD), also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is an acute systemic vasculitis seen in the pediatric population.

—Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports

Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

noun

variants also mucocutaneous lymph node disease

: kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease (KD), also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is an acute systemic vasculitis seen in the pediatric population.

—Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports