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leishmaniasis
| leishmaniasis americana
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leishmaniasis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun leishmaniasis has 1 sense
- leishmaniasis(n = noun.state) kala azar, leishmaniosis - sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies; Array is a kind of protozoal infection
has particulars: assam fever, dumdum fever, kala-azar, visceral leishmaniasis, aleppo boil, cutaneous leishmaniasis, delhi boil, old world leishmaniasis, oriental sore, tropical sore, american leishmaniasis, leishmaniasis americana, mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis, new world leishmaniasis
OXFORD DICTIONARY
leishmaniasis, n. any of several diseases caused by parasitic protozoans of the genus Leishmania transmitted by the bite of sandflies.
Etymology
W. B. Leishman, Brit. physician d. 1926
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