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Stevens-Johnson syndrome en · NOUN

Etymology

Named for Albert Mason Stevens and Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians who jointly published a description of the disorder in 1922.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A life-threatening condition affecting the skin in which cell death causes the epidermis to separate from the dermis.

Translations (1)

fr syndrome de Stevens-Johnson (Translations)