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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cancer characterized by numerous bluish-red nodules on the skin, usually on the lower extremities, that is endemic to equatorial Africa and often occurs in a particularly virulent form in people with AIDS.
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- noun A
tumour caused byhuman herpesvirus 8 (HHV8).
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- noun a sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Moritz Kaposi, (1837–1902), Austrian dermatologist.]
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