Aleppo boil
- noun
- /əˈlɛpoʊ bɔɪl/
- Archaic
:
úlcera de Alepo
- The patient was diagnosed with an Aleppo boil after traveling in the Middle East.
Examples
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Treatment for Aleppo boil typically involves medication to target the underlying parasite.
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The Aleppo boil is often misdiagnosed as other skin conditions.
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Doctors were researching new therapies for cutaneous leishmaniasis, commonly called Aleppo boil.
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Don't ignore the signs of Aleppo boil!
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The patient was diagnosed with an Aleppo boil after traveling in the Middle East.
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Doctors were researching new therapies for cutaneous leishmaniasis, commonly called Aleppo boil.
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Treatment for Aleppo boil typically involves medication to target the underlying parasite.
Synonyms
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9.9
A disease caused by parasites that sandflies spread when they bite people, making skin sores and sometimes harming internal organs
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7.3
A skin disease that causes open sores
A skin infection from tiny parasites in warm countries that makes open sores
A skin disease from sandfly bites in Europe, Asia, or Africa that causes open sores
A skin disease that makes open sores on exposed skin after sandfly bites
An open skin sore caused by a small parasite in hot countries
A disease caused by tiny parasites spread by sandflies that makes skin sores and can affect organs
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a simple place-name + disease noun: a learner who knows 'Aleppo' (a city) and 'boil' (a swollen skin lesion) will readily infer it denotes a type of boil associated with Aleppo or that region. This compositional place+disease pattern is cross-linguistically common and does not rely on an idiomatic or metaphorical meaning, so the basic sense is transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The noun Aleppo boil may come from the city of Aleppo, where a skin disease often made large, painful sores that looked like a boil. So today Aleppo boil means 'a skin disease that causes painful open sores'.