Koplikn.
/ˈkɒplɪk/ Medicine.
Koplik('s) spot: a small greyish-yellow spot, usually with a red halo, occurring on the bucal mucosa (or sometimes on the intestinal mucosa) in the early stages of measles.
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1899 Med. News (N.Y.) LXXIV. 734/2 Koplik's spots were seen on the inner surface of the cheeks and under lip.
1908 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. IV. ii. 297 The specks of secretion are easily wiped off, the Koplik spots are not.
1908 Practitioner Aug. 326 To..examine the buccal mucosa for the presence of the so-called Koplik's spots.
1925 F. Taylor's Pract. Med. (ed. 13) 35 Koplik's spots are of value in diagnosis [of measles], as they rarely occur in other eruptive diseases.
1939 C. W. Duval & H. J. Schattenberg Textbk. Pathol. ix. 284 Microscopically the macule or Koplik spot is a dense central collection of lymphocytes surrounded by tissue that is edematous and hyperemic.
1948 H. Pinkerton in W. A. D. Anderson Path. xv. 359 Koplik spots have been described in fatal cases in the intestinal mucosa.
1970 Hornstein & Gorlin in Gorlin & Goldman Thoma's Oral Path. (ed. 6) II. xvii. 756/2 Koplik's spots result from superficial necrosis of the mucosa and disappear after two to six days.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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