KALA AZAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kala azar mean? 

• KALA AZAR (noun)
  The noun KALA AZAR has 1 sense:

1. sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies

  Familiarity information: KALA AZAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KALA AZAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

kala azar; leishmaniasis; leishmaniosis

Hypernyms ("kala azar" is a kind of...):

protozoal infection (any infection caused by a protozoan)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kala azar"):

Assam fever; dumdum fever; kala-azar; visceral leishmaniasis (leishmaniasis of the viscera)

Aleppo boil; cutaneous leishmaniasis; Delhi boil; Old World leishmaniasis; oriental sore; tropical sore (leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions)

American leishmaniasis; leishmaniasis americana; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis; New World leishmaniasis (a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa)