letterer-siwe disease

letterer-siwe disease
\\ˈled.ərə(r)ˈzēvə-\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized L&S
Etymology: after Erich Letterer b1895 German pathologist and Sture A. Siwe b1897 pediatrican and professor in Sweden, who first described it
: an acute disease of children characterized by fever, hemorrhages, and other evidences of a disturbance in the reticuloendothelial system and by severe bone lesions especially of the skull

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