Associations to the word «Leishmania»

Wiktionary

LEISHMANIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Trypanosomatidae   — parasitic protozoans, a trypanosome, transmitted by sandflies and which cause disease in humans and other vertebrates.
LEISHMANIA, noun. A parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a genus trypanosome protozoa, Leishmania.

Dictionary definition

LEISHMANIA, noun. Flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats