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| leish·man·i·a·sis [ lshmə n əssiss ] |
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infection caused by protozoans: an infection such as kala-azar and some other skin diseases caused by a protozoan that is a parasite in the tissue of vertebrates
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| [Early 20th century. < modern Latin Leishmania, after Sir William Boog Leishman (1865-1926), Scottish pathologist] |
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