leishmaniasis

English

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Alternative forms

• leishmaniosis

Etymology

From leishmania.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /liːʃməˈnaɪəsɪs/, /laɪʃməˈnaɪəsɪs/

Noun

leishmaniasis (plural leishmaniases)

1. (pathology) Any of various ulcerative skin diseases caused by any of the protozoans of the genus Leishmania, transmitted to humans and animals by bloodsucking sandflies.

Translations

pathology

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 利什曼病 (zh) (lìshímànbìng) Czech: please add this translation if you can Dutch: leishmaniasis (nl) f. French: leishmaniose (fr) f. German: Leishmaniose (de) f.

Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: leishmaniose (pt) f. Russian: лейшманиоз (ru) (lejšmanióz) m. Spanish: leishmaniasis (es) f. Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Synonyms

Black Fever Dum-Dum fever kala-azar

leishmaniosis sandfly disease

Derived terms

American leishmaniasis cutaneous leishmaniasis mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis New World leishmaniasis visceral leishmaniasis