See Also: juccuya(medicine)

remythologize (iou) and juccuya (medicine)


remythologize (iou)



remythologize verb trans. Also remythologise. M20.
[from RE- + MYTHOLOGIZE, after demythologize.]
Provide with a new mythological system; reinterpret the elements of (an older mythology) in terms of a newer one.
remythologi'zation noun L20.

juccuya (medicine)


juccuya -->
cutaneous leishmaniasis
Infection with promastigotes (leptomonads) of Leishmania tropica and of leishmaniasis major inoculated into the skin by the bite of an infected sandfly, Phlebotomus (commonly P. Papatasi); it is endemic in parts of Asia Minor, northern Africa, and India, and is known by innumerable names, each indicating its locality (e.g., Aleppo, Baghdad, Delhi, or Jericho boil; Aden ulcer; Biskra button); the ulcer begins as a papule that enlarges to a nodule and then breaks down into an ulcer. Two distinctive clinical and epidemiological diseases are recognised, the more common and widespread zoonotic rural disease with a moist acute form, caused by L. Major, with reservoir rodent hosts; and an urban, anthroponotic, dry, chronic form of leishmaniasis caused by leishmaniasis tropica, without a reservoir host, and now largely controlled.

See: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis.

Synonym: juccuya, Old World leishmaniasis, tropical sore.