nagana

American  

[nuh-gah-nuh] / nəˈgɑ nə /

Or n'gana

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. a disease of horses and other animals, widespread in parts of Africa, caused by the organism Trypanosoma brucei, and transmitted by a variety of tsetse fly.

2. any trypanosomal disease of animals that is transmitted by the tsetse fly.

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nagana British  

/ nəˈɡɑːnə /

noun

1. a disease of domesticated animals of central and southern Africa, caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Trypanosoma transmitted by tsetse flies

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Etymology

Origin of nagana

1890–95; < Nguni; compare Zulu unukane, ulunakane, izinakane

Example Sentences

Harmless to game animals, nagana is deadly to domestic cattle, with a mortality rate of close to 50%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although nagana is not known in the U.S., other drowsing diseases are.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hope was that no game would mean no nagana.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the most dangerous diseases in man, the African sleeping sickness, is caused by a trypanosome, and the disease of domestic cattle in Africa, nagana, or tsetse fly disease, is also so produced.

From Disease and Its Causes by Councilman, William Thomas

In general the disease is very similar to and belongs in the same general class with tsetse-fly disease, or nagana, of Africa and mal de caderas, of South America.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.