kala-azar
IPA: kˈeɪɫʌɑzˈɑr
noun
- (pathology) Visceral leishmaniasis.
kala azar
IPA: kˈɑɫʌɑzɑr
noun
- Alternative spelling of kala-azar. [(pathology) Visceral leishmaniasis.]
Examples of "kala-azar" in Sentences
- More than two million children are at risk of malaria and kala-azar in famine stricken Africa.
- An historical review of malaria, kala-azar and filariasis in Bangladesh in relation to the Flood Action Plan.
- Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies.
- The proximity between humans and livestock is emphasized in this slide showing a kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis) affected household in northern India.
- This seems to be the case for cholera, kala-azar, and schistosomiasis, which did not become established in the Amazonian forest ecosystem (medium certainty).
- Visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala-azar, is an acute, often deadly form of the disease resulting from parasites multiplying in the spleen, liver and bone marrow.
- These trials do not cover the drug related to tropical disease such as kala-azar, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Filaria, Dengue, Chucken Gunea, which are the major problems of the third world countries.