nagana
/nuh-gah-nuh/US // nəˈgɑ nə //UK // (nəˈɡɑːnə) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Veterinary Pathology.
- : a disease of horses and other animals, widespread in parts of Africa, caused by the organism Trypanosoma brucei, and transmitted by a variety of tsetse fly.
- : any trypanosomal disease of animals that is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
Examples
Nagana is one of the most serious diseases of domestic animals in Central and Southern Africa.
The nagana, or tsetse-fly disease of cattle is the most virulent disease of domestic animals in certain parts of Africa.
In the course of his work he established beyond question that the "nagana" and the tsetse-fly disease were identical.
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