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LEISHMANIASIS AMERICANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leishmaniasis americana mean? 

LEISHMANIASIS AMERICANA (noun)
  The noun LEISHMANIASIS AMERICANA has 1 sense:

1. a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosaplay

  Familiarity information: LEISHMANIASIS AMERICANA used as a noun is very rare.


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LEISHMANIASIS AMERICANA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

American leishmaniasis; leishmaniasis americana; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis; New World leishmaniasis

Hypernyms ("leishmaniasis americana" is a kind of...):

kala azar; leishmaniasis; leishmaniosis (sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies)


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