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kwashiorkor

form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q213151
kwashiorkor
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

kwashiorkor is a class of disease[1]. kwashiorkor draws 6,959 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #224 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Cicely Williams[3]
  • Subclass of: protein-energy malnutrition[4], disease[5], dystrophy[6], protein deficiency[7]
  • Commons category: Kwashiorkor[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kwashiorkor[9]
  • Commons gallery: Kwashiorkor[10]
  • ICD-9-CM: 260[11]
  • Health specialty: endocrinology[12]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13579[13], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13579[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[15]

Why It Matters

kwashiorkor has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] kwashiorkor is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

disease endocrinology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → protein-energy malnutrition, disease, dystrophy +1
    Health specialty → endocrinology
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
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