LEPROSY
\lˈɛpɹəsi], \lˈɛpɹəsi], \l_ˈɛ_p_ɹ_ə_s_i]\
Definitions of LEPROSY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae
By Princeton University
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chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae
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A chronic granulomatous infection caused by MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE. The granulomatous lesions are manifested in the skin, the mucous membranes, and the peripheral nerves. Two polar or principal types are lepromatous and tuberculoid.
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Fatal infectious disease, in which the skin becomes white and affected with scales, etc.; very common in Hawaii.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: lepra, lepra Arabum, elephantiasis Graecorum. A chronic, infectious disease caused by the Bacillus leprae, with symptoms which appear chiefly in the skin or the nervous system, according to whether the organisms find their chief development in one or the other of these tissues. The symptoms of the disease were fully described in the first century of the Christian era by Areteus. The Bacillus leprae was discovered by Hansen in 1871. The disease is divided into tubercular l., which chiefly affects the skin, and anesthetic or maculo-anesthetic Ieprosy, which chiefly affects the nerves. [Old Fr., Fr., Lat., Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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