kala-azar

plural kala-azars · alternative kala azar · alternative kalazar

1. uncountableusuallymedicineVisceral leishmaniasis.

   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.

   2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee

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   A chronic disease, invariably fatal, kala azar makes its presence known by the appearance of pustulating epidermal ulcers, marasmus and enlargement of the spleen.

   1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 298

   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.

   2010, Mosby's Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 6th edition, St. Louis, MO: Mosby, →ISBN, page 68

   Synonyms: black fever