pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome
noun
: multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
… new reports of children with COVID-19 coming down with, and sometimes dying from, a mysterious … illness dubbed "pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome" has parents understandably on edge.—Anna Medaris Miller
Some reports are likening pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome to two rare childhood conditions, Kawasaki syndrome and toxic shock syndrome, because of certain similarities among the syndromes.—Denise M. Baran
—abbreviation PMIS
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