doença de Chagas
Portuguese, noun
doença de Chagas is spelled D-O-E-N-Ç-A-D-E-C-H-A-G-A-S (14 letters). Doença de Chagas is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Chagas' disease (form of trypanosomiasis prevalent in South America)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does doença de Chagas mean in English?
noun
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feminineChagas' disease (form of trypanosomiasis prevalent in South America)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. afecção causada pelo protozoário Trypanosoma cruzi, transmitida ao homem pela picada de diversos insetos triatomíneos, especialmente Panstrogylos megistus e Triatoma infestans na América do Sul, conhecidos por barbeiros, e caracterizada por febre, cefaleia e hipóxia (forma aguda), e por cardiopatia, megaesôfago e megacólon (forma crônica)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.