See Also: Leishman-Donovan body(medicine)
Leishman-Donovan bodies(medicine)
Donovan body(dictionary)
Leishman(dictionary)
O'Donovan's Park(tourism)
Donovan, Charles(medicine)
Donovan's bodies(medicine)
Leishman stain(medicine)
Leishman, Sir William(medicine)
Leishman's stain(medicine)

Good Friday (oh) and Leishman-Donovan body (medicine)


Good Friday (oh)



n [U and C]
the Friday before the Christian holiday of Easter, that Christians remember as the day Jesus Christ was crucified

Leishman-Donovan body (medicine)


Leishman-Donovan body


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: amastigote, L-D body.