Definitions from Wiktionary (leprosy)
▸ noun: (pathology, medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
▸ noun: (medicine, now usually proscribed) Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
▸ noun: (figurative) Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.
▸ noun: (obsolete, rare) Synonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.
▸ noun: (veterenary medicine) A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly
▸ noun: Ellipsis of murine leprosy. and feline leprosy, diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium.
Lepromatous leprosy,
tuberculoid leprosy,
leprosy bacillus,
borderline leprosy,
rat leprosy,
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▸ noun: (pathology, medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
▸ noun: (medicine, now usually proscribed) Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
▸ noun: (figurative) Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.
▸ noun: (obsolete, rare) Synonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.
▸ noun: (veterenary medicine) A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly
▸ noun: Ellipsis of murine leprosy. and feline leprosy, diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium.
Similar:
leaprosy,
lepra,
leprosity,
leper,
leproma,
leprophobia,
Hansen's disease,
lepraphobia,
Hansenosis,
melas,
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lepromatous,
tuberculoid,
borderline,
human,
moral,
tubercular,
white,
nodular,
true,
anaesthetic,
indeterminate
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