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A type of ulcer caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
Examples
- 2006, WHO Regional Office for Africa, The Health of the People: The African Regional Health Report, World Health Organization, page 56, Neglected diseases — such as sleeping sickness, visceral leishmaniasis and Buruli ulcer — continue to take their toll in the African Region, but they no longer figure on the disease-control agenda of the developed world.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Named after a county of Uganda where important foci of the disease were studied.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
ulcère de Buruli
— type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans
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German:
Buruli-Ulkus
— type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans
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Italian:
ulcera del Buruli
— type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans
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Italian:
ulcera del Bairnsdale
— type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans
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Italian:
ulcera del Searle
— type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans
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Italian:
ulcera del Daintree
— type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans
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Japanese:
ブルーリ潰瘍
(burūri kaiyō)
— type of ulcer caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans
