Word.ws English Dictionary

leishmanicidal

leishmanicidal adjective: that kills leishmania parasites.

Adjective

leishmanicidal (not comparable)

  1. That kills leishmania parasites.
    • Afonso et al observed that human necrotic, but not apoptotic, neutrophils induced in vitro leishmanicidal activity mediated by macrophages.2015 July 21, “Are Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Playing a Role in the Parasite Control in Active American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Lesions?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about leishmanicidal

What does leishmanicidal mean?
Leishmanicidal means that kills leishmania parasites.
What part of speech is leishmanicidal?
Leishmanicidal is an adjective.

Words near leishmanicidal in the dictionary

  1. leishmanial
  2. leishmanias
  3. leishmaniases
  4. leishmaniasis
  5. leishmanic
  6. leishmanicidal
  7. leishmanicide
  8. leishmanicides
  9. leishmanicidic
  10. leishmanin
  11. leishmanioid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: leishmanicidal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “leishmanicidal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/leishmanicidal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.