¦līshmənˈdänəvən-, -ˈdən- noun
Usage: usually capitalized L&D
Etymology: after Sir William B. Leishman died 1926 English army surgeon & Charles Donovan died 1951 Irish physician
: a protozoan of the genus Leishmania (especially L. donovani ) in its nonmotile stage that is found especially in cells of the skin, spleen, and liver of individuals affected with leishmaniasis and especially kala-azar — compare donovan body in the Dict