Burkitt's lymphoma

[ bur-kits lim-foh-muh ]

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noun

, Pathology.

a type of poorly differentiated malignant lymphoma, mainly afflicting children in central Africa, characterized by a large, bone-destroying lesion of the jaw, an abdominal mass, or more diffuse disease: believed to be associated with Epstein-Barr virus.

Named after Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–93), Irish physician, who identified the malignancy in Uganda in 1957

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