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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An undifferentiated malignant lymphoma usually occurring among children in central Africa, characterized by a large osteolytic lesion in the mandible or by a mass in the retroperitoneal area and associated with the Epstein-Barr virus.
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- noun A
cancer of thelymphatic system .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Denis Parsons Burkitt, (1911–1993), Ugandan physician.]
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Named after Denis Parsons Burkitt, a surgeon who first described the disease in 1956.
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