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| Ta·ka·ya·su dis·ease [ taakə yssoo di zz ] |
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artery inflammation and narrowing: a disease affecting young women that causes serious and damaging narrowing of the main arteries of the upper part of the body. It is rare outside Japan.
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| [Mid-20th century. After the Japanese ophthalmologist Michishige Takayasu (1860-1938)] |
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