kala-azar

• kala azar, kalazar

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːlə əˈzɑː/

kala-azar (usually uncountable, plural kala-azars)

1. (pathology) Visceral leishmaniasis.

   Synonym: black fever

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 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, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, 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.

Borrowed from French kala-azar.

kala-azar n (uncountable)

1. kala-azar