leishmania
/liːʃˈmeɪnɪə
/noun (plural same or leishmanias or leishmaniae /liːʃˈmeɪnɪʌɪ/)
A single-celled parasitic protozoan which spends part of its life cycle in the gut of a sandfly and part in the blood and other tissues of a vertebrate.
- Genus Leishmania, phylum Kinetoplastida, kingdom Protista.
- The leishmania parasite is spread by the bite of a sandfly not known to exist in Australia.
- Parts of the malaria and leishmania parasite genomes are also known.
Origin
Modern Latin, from the name of William B. Leishman (1856–1926), British pathologist.
- rhombencephalon
- rhombi
- rhombic
- rhombical
- rhombically
- rhombicubeoctahedron
- rhombicuboctahedron
- rhombi-cubo-octahedron
- rhombifer
- rhombiferan
- rhombiform
- rhombochasm
- rhomboclase
- rhombododecahedron
- rhombogen
- rhombohedral
- rhombohedric
- rhombohedron
- rhomboid
- rhomboidal
- rhomboidally
- rhomboides
- rhomboideus
- rhomboid ligament
- rhomboid muscle