Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word LEPROSY
LEPROSY
Definitions of LEPROSY
- (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.
- (medicine, nowusuallyproscribed) 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.
- (figurative) Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
- (veterenary medicine) A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly
- (obsolete, rare) Synonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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