Stevens-Johnson syndrome
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[edit]Named for Albert Mason Stevens and Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians who jointly published a description of the disorder in 1922.
Noun
[edit]Stevens-Johnson syndrome (uncountable)
- (medicine) A life-threatening condition affecting the skin in which cell death causes the epidermis to separate from the dermis.
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