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noun
A life-threatening condition affecting the skin in which cell death causes the epidermis to separate from the dermis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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History
Named for Albert Mason Stevens and Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians who jointly published a description of the disorder in 1922.
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