leishmaniasis

Other forms of leishmaniasis

plural

leishmaniasises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about leishmaniasis

What does leishmaniasis mean?

leishmaniasis means "sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies".

How many syllables are in leishmaniasis?

leishmaniasis has 5 syllables: le-ish-ma-nia-sis. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for leishmaniasis?

Close synonyms include leishmaniosis, kala azar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leishmaniasis a common word?

leishmaniasis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.