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ORIENTAL SORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions
Synonyms:
Aleppo boil; cutaneous leishmaniasis; Delhi boil; Old World leishmaniasis; oriental sore; tropical sore
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("oriental sore" is a kind of...):
kala azar; leishmaniasis; leishmaniosis (sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies)
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