Keshan disease

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of coxsackievirus. uncountable
    — Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease.

词源

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