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Definition of Kala-azar
1. Noun. Leishmaniasis of the viscera.
Generic synonyms: Kala Azar, Leishmaniasis, Leishmaniosis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kala-azar
Literary usage of Kala-azar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"There is more than a suspicion that it is concerned in relapsing fever, in
kala-azar, and it has been accused of carrying the bacteria of tuberculosis, ..."
2. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1918)
"Oriental sore and kala-azar.—If the parasite of oriental sore be specifically
identical with that of kala-azar, it must somehow have been deprived of its ..."
3. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"kala-azar. CERTAIN fevers of severe malarial-like types known in ... kala-azar)
have recently been shown to be due to the same cause by the finding of ..."
4. Civilian Devastation: Abuses by All Parties in the War in Southern Sudan by Jemera Rone, John Prendergast, Karen Sorensen (1994)
"In western Upper Nile, the largely Dinka population was stricken by an epidemic
of Kala Azar disease (visceral Leishmaniasis) some years ago. ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"The important thing is to think of the possibility of kala-azar. (6) Infantile
Kala-Azar or Infantile Leishmaniasis The Leishmania ..."
6. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"(i) "Indian " kala-azar due to Leishmania donovani. Indian kala-azar due to
Leishmania donovani is a very fatal disease with a rate of mortality ..."
7. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"It contains large numbers of parasites in the endothelial cells. Cirrhosis may
be present. Infantile kala-azar In 1905 Pianese found in the spleens ..."
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