/berr"kits/ , Pathol.
a type of poorly differentiated malignant lymphoma, mainly afflicting children in central Africa, characterized by a large, bone-destroying lesion of the jaw, an abdominal mass, or more diffuse disease: believed to be associated with Epstein-Barr virus.
[ named after Denis Parsons Burkitt (b. 1911), Irish physician, who identified the malignancy in Uganda in 1957 ]