Sarcoidosis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A multisystem disorder characterized by granulomas. countable, uncountable

    "The report, published this month in Chest, a medical journal, showed that 13 firefighters or emergency service workers developed sarcoidosis in the first year after the attack, a rate five times higher than normal."

  2. 2
    a chronic disease of unknown cause marked by the formation of nodules in the lungs and liver and lymph glands and salivary glands wordnet

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"The report, published this month in Chest, a medical journal, showed that 13 firefighters or emergency service workers developed sarcoidosis in the first year after the attack, a rate five times higher than normal."

Etymology

From sarcoid + -osis.

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