oriental sore
oriental sore (Baghdad boil, Delhi boil, Aleppo boil) (or-i-en-t'l) n. a skin disease, occurring in tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia, caused by the parasitic protozoan Leishmania tropica. The disease takes the form of a slow-healing open sore or ulcer, which sometimes becomes secondarily infected with bacteria.
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