Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of leishmaniasis occurring chiefly in India, caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani and characterized by fever, enlargement of the spleen and liver, progressive anemia and leukopenia, and weight loss.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun ‘The black sickness’; a fever of India marked by an intermittent or remittent stage and a stage of continued fever, with progressive anemia, prostration, and dropsy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun leishmaniasis of the viscera
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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More than two million children are at risk of malaria and kala-azar in famine stricken Africa.
African Refugee Children at High Risk for Kala-azar, Malaria, Viral Infections 2011
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More than two million children are at risk of malaria and kala-azar in famine stricken Africa.
African Refugee Children at High Risk for Kala-azar, Malaria, Viral Infections 2011
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Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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This seems to be the case for cholera, kala-azar, and schistosomiasis, which did not become established in the Amazonian forest ecosystem (medium certainty).
Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports 2008
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These trials do not cover the drug related to tropical disease such as kala-azar, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Filaria, Dengue, Chucken Gunea, which are the major problems of the third world countries.
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An historical review of malaria, kala-azar and filariasis in Bangladesh in relation to the Flood Action Plan.
Chapter 13 1996
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Visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala-azar, is an acute, often deadly form of the disease resulting from parasites multiplying in the spleen, liver and bone marrow.
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The proximity between humans and livestock is emphasized in this slide showing a kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis) affected household in northern India.
Chapter 12 1996
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