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leprosy
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[ noun ] (medicine) 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
Synonyms Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Eight or ten years ago , a_couple_of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee_Guimet , in Paris , and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy . Related terms infectious_disease tuberculoid_leprosy lepromatous_leprosy enl |
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