kala-azar
See also: kala azar
English
Alternative forms
- kala azar, kalazar
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani کالا آزار / काला आज़ार (kālā āzār, literally “black sickness”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌkɑːlə əˈzɑː/
Noun
kala-azar (usually uncountable, plural kala-azars)
- (pathology) Visceral leishmaniasis.
- Synonym: black fever
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 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, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, 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
Etymology
From French kala-azar.
Noun
kala-azar n (uncountable)
- kala-azar
Declension
declension of kala-azar (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) kala-azar | kala-azarul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) kala-azar | kala-azarului |
| vocative | kala-azarule | |