Nagana Definition

nəgänə
noun
An infectious disease affecting horses and cattle in tropical Africa, caused by a trypanosome (Trypanosoma brucei) transmitted by the bite of infected tsetse flies.
Webster's New World

Origin of Nagana

  • Zulu -nakane

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nagana Sentence Examples

  • Tsetse-flies are of great economic and pathological importance as the disseminators of tsetse-fly disease (nagana) and sleeping sickness.

  • Since, moreover, it is believed that at least five species of Glossina are carriers of nagana, it may well be that all tsetse-flies can disseminate both nagana and sleeping sickness.

  • Plimmer, " The Trypanosoma brucei, the organism found in Nagana or the Tsetsefly disease," Quart.

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