Keshan disease

Meaning

Noun

A congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of Coxsackievirus.

Origin

Named after Keshan (克山) County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.

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