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Kaposi's sarcoma
[ kuh-poh-seez, kap-uh- ]
noun
- a cancer of connective tissue characterized by painless, purplish-red to brown plaquelike or pimply lesions on the extremities, trunk, or head, and sometimes involving the lungs, viscera, etc., occurring in a mild form among older men of certain Mediterranean and central African populations and in a more virulent form among persons with AIDS.
Kaposi's sarcoma
/ 办忙藞辫蓹蕣蝉瑟锄 /
noun
- a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Kaposi's sarcoma1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Kaposi's sarcoma1
Example Sentences
They have two viruses in their sights: murine leukemia virus and Kaposi's sarcoma virus.
The following year, while in Tokyo, he discovered a small purple spot on his leg that, when he returned to New York, was confirmed as Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma.
The ordeals of Kushner鈥檚 characters play out in Szasz鈥檚 sandbox 鈥 the sands of time, it seems, intimations of the mortality that asserts itself harrowingly in the performance of Westrate鈥檚 Prior Walter, a gay man afflicted with the literal markers of AIDS, the lesions of Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma.
He was horribly sick for the first two years, including hepatitis, herpes and mononucleosis, and was eventually diagnosed with stage-four lymphoma and Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma.
Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma was a signal of near-certain death in the 1980s, and now the pustules of monkeypox are a harbinger of searing pain, however temporary and non-deadly.
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