See Also: African sleeping sickness(health)
african sleeping sickness(medicine)
West African sleeping sickness(medicine)
acute African sleeping sickness(medicine)
chronic African sleeping sickness(medicine)
East African sleeping sickness(medicine)
medicine, african traditional(medicine)
tritanopia(dictionary)
tritanopia(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)

african sleeping sickness (medicine) and tritanopia (medicine)


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.


tritanopia (medicine)


tritanopia
Deficient colour perception in which there is an absence of blue-sensitive pigment in the retinal cones.

Origin: G. Tritos, third, + an-priv. + ops, eye