Leishmaniasis

Definition: Leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis

Noun

1. Sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania.

Specialty Definitions: Leishmaniasis

Domain	Definitions
Botanical	A tropical disease transmitted by flies. Treated with Pothomorphe. (references)
Health	A disease caused by any of a number of species of protozoa in the genus Leishmania. There are four major clinical types of this infection: cutaneous (Old and New World), diffuse cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral leishmaniasis. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Leishmaniasis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Leishmaniasis is a disease spread by the bite of certain species of sand fly. Synonyms for leishmaniasis include kala azar, Black Fever and Dum-Dum fever. The disease is named for William Boog Leishman.

The symptoms of leishmaniasis are skin sores which erupt weeks to months after the person affected is bitten by sand flies. Other consequences, which can become manifest anywhere from a few months to years after infection, include fever, damage to the spleen and liver, and anaemia.

It can be transmitted in many tropical and sub-tropical countries, although the preponderance of cases occur in Bangladesh, Brazil, India and Sudan.

There are four main forms of leishmaniasis.

Visceral leishmaniasis - the most serious form and potentially fatal if untreated.
Cutaneous leishmaniasis - the most common form which causes numerous sores on the body, which heal within a few months leaving unpleasant looking scars.
Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis - this form produces widespread skin lesions which resemble leprosy and is particularly difficult to treat.
Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis - commences with skin ulcers which spread causing tissue damage to (particularly) nose and mouth

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leishmaniasis."

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Synonym: Leishmaniasis

Synonym: leishmaniosis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leishmaniasis

English words defined with "leishmaniasis": Aleppo boil, American leishmaniasis, Assam fever ♦ cutaneous leishmaniasis ♦ Delhi boil, dumdum fever ♦ genus Leishmania ♦ kala-azar ♦ Leishmania, leishmaniasis americana ♦ mucocutaneous leishmaniasis ♦ nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis, New World leishmaniasis ♦ Old World leishmaniasis, oriental sore ♦ tropical sore ♦ visceral leishmaniasis. (references)

Specialty definitions using "leishmaniasis": Antimony Sodium Gluconate ♦ Leishmania braziliensis, Leishmania donovani, Leishmania guyanensis, Leishmania infantum, Leishmania major, Leishmania mexicana, Leishmania tropica, Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous, Leishmaniasis, Diffuse Cutaneous, Leishmaniasis, Mucocutaneous, Leishmaniasis, Visceral. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Leishmaniasis

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Leishmaniasis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cutaneous leishmaniasis : molecular and immune mechanisms of pathogenesis (reference) Immunological Aspects of Leprosy, Tuberculosis and Leishmaniasis (reference) Leishmaniasis (Human Parasitic Diseases, Vol 1) (reference) Manual para el diagnâostico de leishmaniasis (reference) Molecular and Immune Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (Medical Intelligence Unit) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Leishmaniasis

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	Skin ulcer due to leishmaniasis, hand of Central American adult.Credit: CDC.		Histopathology of leishmaniasis of subcutaneous tissue due to Leishmania donovani. Parasite.Credit: CDC.
	Histopathology of leishmaniasis of skin due to Leishmania brasiliensis. Parasite.Credit: CDC.		Crater lesion of leishmaniasis, skin.Credit: CDC.
	Scar on skin of upper leg representing healed lesion of leishmaniasis.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Leishmaniasis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Diagnosing leishmaniasis can be difficult. (references)
		There are several different forms of leishmaniasis. (references)
		It is very rare for travelers to get visceral leishmaniasis. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Leishmaniasis

"Leishmaniasis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leishmaniasis" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

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Expressions: Leishmaniasis

Expressions using "leishmaniasis": american leishmaniasis ♦ cutaneous leishmaniasis ♦ leishmaniasis americana ♦ mucocutaneous leishmaniasis ♦ nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis ♦ new World leishmaniasis ♦ old World leishmaniasis ♦ visceral leishmaniasis. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leishmaniasis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
leishmaniasis	133
leishmaniasis cutaneous	9
visceral leishmaniasis	7
leishmaniasis niños	5
canine leishmaniasis	4
herb leishmaniasis	4
cusco leishmaniasis	2
leishmaniasis parasite	2
braziliensis cutaneous leishmania leishmaniasis	2
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Modern Translations: Leishmaniasis

Language		Translations for "leishmaniasis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		leishmaniasis, orient-byld (Bombay boil), Bombay-byld (Bombay boil). (various references)

Dutch		leishmaniasis tropica (Aleppo boil, Bagdad boil, Bombay boil, cat-boil, oriental boil, Oriental sore), leishmaniasis, leishmaniase, Aleppobuil (Aleppo boil, Bagdad boil, Bombay boil, cat-boil, oriental boil, Oriental sore). (various references)

Finnish		leishmanioosi, leishmaniaasi. (various references)

French		leishmaniose, bouton d'Orient (cutaneous leishmaniasis). (various references)

German		Bombay-Beule (Bombay boil). (various references)

Greek		λεϊσμανίαση, δερματική λεϊσμανίαση (Aleppo boil, Bombay boil, bubas, cat-boil, cutaneous leishmaniasis, Delhi boil, Delhi sore, oriental sore, yaws). (various references)

Italian		leishmaniosi. (various references)

Pig Latin		eishmaniasislay

Portuguese		leishmaniose (Bombay boil), botão-do-oriente (Bombay boil). (various references)

Spanish		leishmaniasis (Bombay boil, caneotica, Leishmania tropica, leishmaniose). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Leishmaniasis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-i-i-i-l-m-n-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: leishmanias.
	-3 letters: leishmania.
	-4 letters: alienisms, mainsails, malihinis, nasalises, nihilisms, sliminess.
	-5 letters: alienism, amnesias, ashiness, hessians, liminess, mainsail, malaises, malihini, messiahs, minishes, missiles, nasalise, nihilism, salesman, samisens, sashimis, silesias, slimness.
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