KAPOSI'S SARCOMA Definition & Meaning

Kaposi's sarcoma

[kuh-poh-seez, kap-uh-]

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noun

Pathology.

a cancer of connective tissue characterized by painless, purplish-red to brown plaquelike or pimply lesions on the extremities, trunk, or head, and sometimes involving the lungs, viscera, etc., occurring in a mild form among older men of certain Mediterranean and central African populations and in a more virulent form among persons with AIDS.

Kaposi's sarcoma

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noun

a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Kaposi's sarcoma¹

After Hungarian dermatologist Moritz Kaposi, or Moriz Kohn (1837–1902), who described it in 1872

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Kaposi's sarcoma¹

C20: named after Moritz Kohn Kaposi (1837–1902), Austrian dermatologist who first described the sores that characterize the disease

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They have two viruses in their sights: murine leukemia virus and Kaposi's sarcoma virus.

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The following year, while in Tokyo, he discovered a small purple spot on his leg that, when he returned to New York, was confirmed as Kaposi’s sarcoma.

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The ordeals of Kushner’s characters play out in Szasz’s sandbox — the sands of time, it seems, intimations of the mortality that asserts itself harrowingly in the performance of Westrate’s Prior Walter, a gay man afflicted with the literal markers of AIDS, the lesions of Kaposi’s sarcoma.

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He was horribly sick for the first two years, including hepatitis, herpes and mononucleosis, and was eventually diagnosed with stage-four lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma.

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Kaposi’s sarcoma was a signal of near-certain death in the 1980s, and now the pustules of monkeypox are a harbinger of searing pain, however temporary and non-deadly.

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