kala-azar
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See also: kala azar
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hindustani کالا آزار (kālā āzār) / काला आज़ार (kālā āzār, literally “black sickness”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kala-azar (usually uncountable, plural kala-azars)
- (pathology) Visceral leishmaniasis.
- Synonym: black fever
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 298:
- A chronic disease, invariably fatal, kala azar makes its presence known by the appearance of pustulating epidermal ulcers, marasmus and enlargement of the spleen.
- 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
- Ratanmala was afraid of these but what frightened her even more was the fever, kala azar, which had taken so many lives including that of her uncle's first born.
- 2010, Mosby's Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 6th edition, St. Louis, MO: Mosby, →ISBN, page 68:
- It is administered by IV infusion in the treatment of severe systemic fungal infections and kala-azars in patients refractory to or intolerant of conventional amphotericin B therapy.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French kala-azar.
Noun
[edit]kala-azar n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | kala-azar | kala-azarul |
genitive-dative | kala-azar | kala-azarului |
vocative | kala-azarule |
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