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Definition of Leishmania
1. Noun. Flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis.
Generic synonyms: Flagellate, Flagellate Protozoan, Flagellated Protozoan, Mastigophoran, Mastigophore
Definition of Leishmania
1. Noun. Parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a genus trypanosome protozoa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leishmania
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Medical Definition of Leishmania
1. A genus of parasitic flagellated protozoans which causes diseases in animals including humans, most notably leishmaniasis. A type of trypanosome. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leishmania
Literary usage of Leishmania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Diseases Due to Varieties of leishmania (Human leishmaniasis) Varieties of
leishmania.—These parasites are Protozoa, class Masli- ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
">metabolites of leishmania donovani Promastigotes. ... Results utilizing less
defined media suggest that promastigotes of leishmania produce ..."
3. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"leishmania, Ross, 1903. With an oval body containing nucleus and ... Included in
the genus leishmania are three species, ..."
4. Pathogenic Micro-organisms; a Text-book of Microbiology for Physicians and by Ward J. MacNeal, Herbert Upham Williams (1914)
"leishmania Infantum.—Nicolle in 1908 observed this organism in the spleen, liver
and bone marrow of children dying from splenomegaly in northern Africa. ..."
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