leishmaniosis

Other forms of leishmaniosis

plural

leishmaniosises·

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 leishmaniosis

What does leishmaniosis mean?

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

How many syllables are in leishmaniosis?

leishmaniosis has 5 syllables: le-ish-ma-nio-sis. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for leishmaniosis?

Close synonyms include leishmaniasis, 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 leishmaniosis a common word?

leishmaniosis 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.