trypanosomiasis

English

Etymology

From trypanosome +‎ -iasis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

trypanosomiasis (countable and uncountable, plural trypanosomiases)

1. (pathology) Any of several diseases or infections caused by a trypanosome.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 297:

     Spotted fever, yaws, typhus and trypanosomiasis throve here.

Derived terms

• Congo trypanosomiasis
• human African trypanosomiasis

 

Translations

disease caused by a trypanosome

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錐蟲病／锥虫病 (zh) (zhuīchóngbìng)

• French: trypanosomiase (fr) f
• Hindi: ट्रिपैनोसोमियासिस (ṭripainosomiyāsis)
• Indonesian: tripanosomiasis
• Japanese: トリパノソーマ症 (toripasōmashō)
• Kazakh: трипаносомоз (tripanosomoz)
• Korean: 트리파노소마증 (teuripanosomajeung)
• Persian: تریپانوزومیاز
• Portuguese: tripanossomíase f
• Spanish: tripanosomiasis (es) f
• Telugu: ట్రైపానోసోమియసిస్ (ṭraipānōsōmiyasis)

See also

• African trypanosomiasis
• Chagas' disease
• dourine
• nagana
• sleeping sickness
• surra
• tsetse disease
• tsetse fly disease