different between nagana vs trypanosomiasis

English

Alternative forms

• ngana

Etymology

Borrowed from Zulu ulunakane, unakane.

Noun

nagana (uncountable)

1. (veterinary medicine) A disease of vertebrates in southern Africa, characterised by swelling and lethargy and caused by trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 460:

     In 1894 Major David Bruce was sent to Zululand to investigate the cattle disease nagana.

Translations

Anagrams

• Anaang

Finnish

Noun

nagana

1. (pathology) nagana (sleeping disease occurring in animals)

Declension

Italian

Alternative forms

• n'gana

Noun

nagana f (invariable)

1. (pathology, veterinary medicine) nagana or n'gana (cattle desease caused by Trypanosoma brucei via tse-tse fly)

Northern Sotho

Verb

nagana

1. to think

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na??a.na/

Noun

nagana f

1. reprimand

Declension

Related terms

• (adjective) naganny
• (noun) przygana

Noun

nagana m

1. genitive singular of nagan

Further reading

• nagana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/gani? on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/gani?

English

Etymology

trypanosome +? -iasis

Noun

trypanosomiasis (plural trypanosomiases)

1. (medicine) Any of several diseases or infections caused by a trypanosome.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 297:

     Spotted fever, yaws, typhus and trypanosomiasis throve here.

Translations

See also

• African trypanosomiasis
• Chagas' disease
• dourine
• nagana
• sleeping sickness
• surra
• tsetse disease
• tsetse fly disease