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what is LD body ?? what does it mean ?

Answer 1

the intracytoplasmic, nonflagellated leishmanial form of certain intracellular parasites, such as species of Leishmania or the intracellular form of Trypanosoma cruzi; originally used for Leishmania donovani parasites in infected spleen or liver cells in kala azar. Synonym(s): amastigote, L-D body.

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Answer 2

Leishman-Donovan body

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Leish·man-Don·o·van bod·y

 (līsh'măn don'ŏ-văn),

the intracytoplasmic, nonflagellated leishmanial form of certain intracellular parasites, such as species of Leishmania or the intracellular form of Trypanosoma cruzi; originally used for Leishmania donovani parasites in infected spleen or liver cells in kala azar.

Synonym(s): amastigote, L-D body

Leishman-Donovan body

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Leish·man-Don·o·van bod·y

 (līsh'măn don'ŏ-văn),

the intracytoplasmic, nonflagellated leishmanial form of certain intracellular parasites, such as species of Leishmania or the intracellular form of Trypanosoma cruzi; originally used for Leishmania donovani parasites in infected spleen or liver cells in kala azar.

Synonym(s): amastigote, L-D body

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Leishman-Donovan body

[lēsh′mən don′əvən]

Etymology: William B. Leishman, English pathologist, 1865-1926; Charles Donovan, Irish physician, 1863-1951

the resting stage of an intracellular nonflagellated protozoan parasite (Leishmania donovani) that causes kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, as it appears in infected tissue specimens.

Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 9th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.

Leish·man-Don·o·van bod·y

(lēsh'măn don'ŏ-văn bod'ē)

The intracytoplasmic, nonflagellated leishmanial form of certain intracellular parasites, such as species of Leishmania or the intracellular form of Trypanosoma cruzi. 
Synonym(s): amastigote.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

Leishman-Donovan body

A body of a (trypanosomatid) protozoa at a particular and characteristic stage in its life cycle; the infectious (trypanosomatid) protozoa can cause leishmaniasis, and is relatively easy to identify at that stage.

Mentioned in: Leishmaniasis

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Donovan,

Charles, English surgeon, 1863-1951.

Donovan bodies - clusters of blue or black staining, bipolar chromatin condensations in large mononuclear cells in granulation tissue infected with Calymmatobacterium granulomatis.

Leishman-Donovan body - see under Leishman

Leishman,

Sir William Boog, Scottish surgeon, 1865-1926.

Leishmania - a genus of digenetic, asexual, protozoan flagellates.

Leishman chrome cells - basophilic granular leukocytes (basophils) observed in the circulating blood of some persons with blackwater fever.

Leishman stain - a polychromed eosin-methylene blue stain used in the examination of blood films.

Leishman-Donovan body - the intracytoplasmic, nonflagellated leishmanial form of certain intracellular parasites. Synonym(s): amastigote; L-D body

leishmaniasis - tropical disease that is spread by sandflies.