lēshˈmanēə, lish-, -ˈmān- noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Sir William B. Leishman died 1926 British medical officer + New Latin -ia
1. capitalized : a genus of flagellates (family Trypanosomatidae) parasitic in the tissues of vertebrates, probably transmitted by insects in a manner comparable to trypanosomes, and occurring parasitically as a minute ovoid or spherical nonflagellated body with a definite kinetoplast and usually an intracellular axoneme but in culture and presumably in the invertebrate host assuming the form typical of a leptomonas — see kala-azar , oriental sore
2. -s : any organism of the genus Leishmania ; also : any member of the family Trypanosomatidae when showing the typical intracellular leishmanial form
• leish·mani·al (ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷əl adjective