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KAPOSI'S SARCOMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Example:
until 1980 Kaposi's sarcoma occurred almost exclusively with Jewish or Italian or black men
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Kaposi's sarcoma" is a kind of...):
sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)
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