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TAKE THE QUIZleishmania
noun
leish·man·ia
lēsh-ˈma-nē-ə
plural leishmanias or leishmania
: any of a genus (Leishmania) of parasitic, flagellate protozoans that cause leishmaniasis, are transmitted by the bite of sand flies (genus Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia), and occur in an motile, extracellular form within the gut of sand flies and a nonmotile, intracellular form within the macrophages of mammalian hosts
broadly
: a protozoan resembling the leishmanias that is included in the family (Trypanosomatidae) to which they belong
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