Used attributively and in the possessive with reference to Leishman's work in pathology. = Leishman–Donovan body, n.

One of the numerous ovoid structures consisting of a single non-flagellated leishmania found in the macrophages of sufferers from leishmaniasis.

(a) Any protozoon of the genus Leishmania (family Trypanosomidæ), comprising three species which are parasitic in man (and occasionally other…