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語源

From Hindi काला (kālā, “black”) + आज़ार (āzār, “fever”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːlə əˈzɑː/

名詞

kala azar (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Visceral leishmaniasis.
   • 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.

語源

Borrowed from Hindustani کالا آزار‎ / काला आज़ार (kālā āzār, literally “black sickness”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːlə əˈzɑː/

名詞

kala-azar (usually uncountable, 複数形 kala-azars)

1. (medicine) 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.