单词 | kala azar |
释义 | kala azarn. Pathology. A febrile disease of tropical and subtropical regions caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani and transmitted by sand flies of the genus Phlebotomus: usually associated with emaciation, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and often bronzing of the skin. Also known as visceral leishmaniasis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 1883 J. J. Clarke in Ann. Sanitary Rep. Assam 1882 36 As far back as 1869, the attention of administrative officers in Assam became directed to a peculiar disorder (called ‘Kala Azar’, the ‘Black Disease’, from the singular bronzing of the skin so often observed with it), the ravages of which decimated..numerous villages in the district of the Gáro Hills. 1895 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 May 1055/1 In many tea-gardens..kala azar carries off the coolies in large numbers. 1897 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 June 1434/2 The anæmia met with in kala-azar. 1907 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. II. ii. 50 The Leishman-Donovan bodies of kala azar. 1908 L. Rogers Fevers in Tropics i. 31 Kala-azar is the epidemic manifestation of a fever, endemic in extensive areas of India, which has spread slowly for thirty years up the Assam valley. 1930 Rogers & Megaw Trop. Med. ii. 81 The name kala-azar..was in use in Bengal and Assam long before the nature of the disease was known. 1932 S. H. Gaiger & G. O. Davies Vet. Pathol. & Bacteriol. xxiii. 346 Visceral leishmaniasis is known in human beings as kala-azar, and is found frequently in dogs.., especially on the shores of the Mediterranean. 1966 ‘Han Suyin’ Mortal Flower i. 35 The German pension..was run by Mrs Apelt, whose husband was dying of kala-azar acquired in Manchuria. 1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xix. 8 Leishmania donovani causes kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis in man and animals, and the disease occurs in certain parts of all continents except Australia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
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