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noun
Clustered white lesions on the buccal mucosa, a prodromic viral enanthem of measles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
small red spots with white centers found on the mucous membranes of the mouth and tongue; symptom of measles that appears one or two days before the measles rash appears
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: symptom
History
Named after Henry Koplik (1858-1927), an American pediatrician who published a short description of them in 1896.
