Medical Definition of Juccuya

1. Infection with promastigotes (leptomonads) of Leishmania tropica and of leishmaniasis major inoculated into the skin by the bite of an infected sandfly, Phlebotomus (commonly P. Papatasi); it is endemic in parts of Asia Minor, northern Africa, and India, and is known by innumerable names, each indicating its locality (e.g., Aleppo, Baghdad, Delhi, or Jericho boil; Aden ulcer; Biskra button); the ulcer begins as a papule that enlarges to a nodule and then breaks down into an ulcer. Two distinctive clinical and epidemiological diseases are recognised, the more common and widespread zoonotic rural disease with a moist acute form, caused by L. Major, with reservoir rodent hosts; and an urban, anthroponotic, dry, chronic form of leishmaniasis caused by leishmaniasis tropica, without a reservoir host, and now largely controlled. See: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis. Synonym: juccuya, Old World leishmaniasis, tropical sore. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Juccuya

jubilant
jubilantly
jubilarian
jubilarians
jubilate
jubilated
jubilates
jubilating
jubilation
jubilations
jubile
jubilee
jubilee
jubilees
jubiles
juccuya (current term)
juco
jucos
jud
Juda
Judaea
Judah
Judaic
Judaica
Judaical
judaism
Judaism
judas
judas
judases

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