african sleeping sickness (medicine) and resident (iou)

african sleeping sickness (medicine)

african sleeping sickness
<infectious disease> A disease affecting humans and Other mammals in central Africa that is caused by the parasitic protozoans Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and is transmitted by the tsetse fly.

Symptoms include fever, chills, headache, vomiting, pain in the extremities, lymph gland enlargement, anaemia, depression, fatigue, coma, and eventually death if left untreated. The trypanosome is able to evade the host's immune system by frequently changing the proteins on its outer surface, by which the immune system identifies intruders.

resident (iou)

resident adjective & noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French resident or Latin resident- pres. ppl stem of residere RESIDE verb1: see -ENT.]
A. adjective.
Residing, dwelling, or having an abode in a place. ME.
S. Butler The deceased was..resident in the parish.
b. Of a (species of) bird or animal: remaining in a specified place or region throughout the year. Also occas., breeding regularly in a place or region. E19.
Staying regularly in or at a place for the performance of official duties or to work, study, etc. LME.
resident AMBASSADOR. resident commissioner US a delegate elected to represent Puerto Rico in the US House of Representatives, able to speak in the House and serve on committees but not to vote.
E. Young-Bruehl A kind of informal resident tutor for their little daughter.
Of a thing: situated, lying. (Foll. by in.) LME.
Of a quality, power, etc.: abiding, present, inherent, established. E16.
Coleridge Liberty of the Press (a power resident in the people).
Computing. Of a program, file, etc.: occupying a permanent place in memory. M20.
b. noun.
A person who resides permanently in a place; a permanent or settled inhabitant of a town, district, etc. Also, a guest staying one or more nights at a hotel etc. LME.
b. A bird belonging to a non-migratory species; occas. (more fully summer resident) a bird which breeds regularly in a particular place or region. L19.
Hist.
a. A diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court. E17.
C. V. Wedgwood The French resident in London presented a letter from the Queen.
b. Orig, a representative of the East India Company residing at a commercial outpost. Later, a representative of the Governor-General residing at the court of an Indian State; a British government agent in a semi-independent State. L18.
c. The governor of a residency in Indonesia. E19.
A medical graduate who has completed an internship and is engaged in specialized practice under supervision in a hospital. N. Amer. L19.
[translating Russian rezident.] An intelligence agent in a foreign country. M20.
residenting ppl adjective (rare) residing, resident M17-E18.
residentship noun the office or post of a resident L16.

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