Definition of Tropical sore

1. Noun. Leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions.


Medical Definition of Tropical sore

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 Tropical Sore

tropical climate
tropical diarrhoea
tropical diseases
tropical eczema
tropical eosinophilia
tropical mask
tropical measles
tropical medicine
tropical medicine
tropical myositis
tropical pitcher plant
tropical prawn
tropical pyomyositis
tropical rain forest
tropical sore (current term)
tropical sore (current term)
tropical splenomegaly
tropical splenomegaly syndrome
tropical sprue
tropical typhus
tropical ulcer
tropical year
tropical zone
tropicamide
tropicbird
tropics
tropic acid
tropic acid dehydrogenase
tropic bird
tropic hormone

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