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Definition of leprosy in English: leprosynoun ˈlɛprəsiˈlɛprəsi mass noun1A contagious disease that affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves, causing discoloration and lumps on the skin and, in severe cases, disfigurement and deformities. Leprosy is now mainly confined to tropical Africa and Asia. Leprosy is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, which is Gram-positive, non-motile, and acid-fast Also called Hansen's disease Example sentencesExamples - The eating of pork has produced leprosy and cancerous tumors.
- Programmes to control leprosy, hepatitis and dengue fever are vividly shown.
- They prefer their disease to be called Hansen's disease not leprosy, and the disease can be easily cured.
- Some neighbours believed she had leprosy, a disease that brings immediate isolation in Hindu society.
- On the other hand, smallpox has been eradicated, sleeping sickness has become rare, and polio and leprosy are under control.
- The most severe form of leprosy produces large disfiguring nodules, or lumps.
- In those days, people used to think I could cure them of laryngitis, leprosy or haemophilia just by touching them with my horn.
- Diseases like leprosy, Guinea worm and river blindness are endemic.
- This may happen due to injuries, infections, or even chronic problems like rheumatoid arthritis and leprosy.
- While patients with tuberculoid leprosy have only a few organisms, those with lepromatous leprosy have abundant bacteria.
- However, despite drug treatment, the number of new cases of leprosy detected each year has stayed the same or risen.
- Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
- Both Danielssen and Boeck believed that leprosy was a hereditary disease.
- In 1879, Albert Neisser, one of Robert Koch's pupils, visited Bergen to study leprosy.
- Infections such as typhoid, malaria and even leprosy were among the illnesses people picked up while on holiday.
- It now looks as if leprosy originated in East Africa, and Europeans and North Africans took it to West Africa.
- In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
- Borderline leprosy shows an intermediate appearance between the tuberculoid and lepromatous types.
- Historically, anxiety about the loss of the nose is tied to stigmatizing diseases - leprosy and syphilis.
- Cholera, plague, smallpox, malaria, kalaazar, leprosy and venereal diseases are the others considered.
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Origin Mid 16th century (superseding Middle English lepry): from leprous + -y3. Definition of leprosy in US English: leprosynounˈleprəsēˈlɛprəsi A contagious disease that affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves, causing discoloration and lumps on the skin and, in severe cases, disfigurement and deformities. Leprosy is now mainly confined to tropical Africa and Asia. Leprosy is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, which is Gram-positive, nonmotile, and acid-fast Also called Hansen's disease Example sentencesExamples - Cholera, plague, smallpox, malaria, kalaazar, leprosy and venereal diseases are the others considered.
- Borderline leprosy shows an intermediate appearance between the tuberculoid and lepromatous types.
- However, despite drug treatment, the number of new cases of leprosy detected each year has stayed the same or risen.
- On the other hand, smallpox has been eradicated, sleeping sickness has become rare, and polio and leprosy are under control.
- They prefer their disease to be called Hansen's disease not leprosy, and the disease can be easily cured.
- In those days, people used to think I could cure them of laryngitis, leprosy or haemophilia just by touching them with my horn.
- Some neighbours believed she had leprosy, a disease that brings immediate isolation in Hindu society.
- The most severe form of leprosy produces large disfiguring nodules, or lumps.
- This may happen due to injuries, infections, or even chronic problems like rheumatoid arthritis and leprosy.
- Diseases like leprosy, Guinea worm and river blindness are endemic.
- While patients with tuberculoid leprosy have only a few organisms, those with lepromatous leprosy have abundant bacteria.
- It now looks as if leprosy originated in East Africa, and Europeans and North Africans took it to West Africa.
- Historically, anxiety about the loss of the nose is tied to stigmatizing diseases - leprosy and syphilis.
- Programmes to control leprosy, hepatitis and dengue fever are vividly shown.
- Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
- Infections such as typhoid, malaria and even leprosy were among the illnesses people picked up while on holiday.
- The eating of pork has produced leprosy and cancerous tumors.
- In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
- In 1879, Albert Neisser, one of Robert Koch's pupils, visited Bergen to study leprosy.
- Both Danielssen and Boeck believed that leprosy was a hereditary disease.
Origin Mid 16th century (superseding Middle English lepry): from leprous + -y. |