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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See leprosy.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology The disease leprosy, caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 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

Etymologies

  1. Named after Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841-1912) who in 1873 discovered the bacterium causing the disease. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912), Norwegian physician. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. infectious disease

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  1. lepromatous leprosy
  1. tuberculoid leprosy

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  1. leprosy

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