Burkitt'slymphoma

Bur·kitt's lymphoma (bûrʹkĭts) n.

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. Also called Burkitt's tumor.

  [After Denis ParsonsBurkitt (1911-1993), Ugandan physician.]

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