Burkitts lymphoma

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Bur′kitt's lympho′ma

(ˈbɜr kɪts)
n.

a cancer of the lymphatic system characterized by lesions of the jaw or abdomen, mainly affecting children in central Africa.

[after Denis Parsons Burkitt (b. 1911), Irish physician, who identified it in 1957]

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