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Synonyms for leprosy
ˈlɛp rə silep·rosy
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leprosynoun
Synonyms:
Hansens disease, meselleprosynoun
An infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.
The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.
Synonyms:
Hansens disease, meselleprosynoun
In the Bible, a disease of the skin not conclusively identified, which can also affect clothes and houses.
Synonyms:
Hansens disease, mesel
Princeton's WordNet
leprosy, Hansen's diseasenoun
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
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If leprosy is not controlled in the world, we'll continue to see it in immigration.
We can use the impetus we have now from COVID to deal with some of those diseases, like leprosy, which was around thousands of years ago and is still around, we get outraged by diseases that kill, but not by diseases that disable.
The physician in India who is familiar with leprosy would see a patch and quickly do a test for a loss of sensation. Here, you wouldn't even test for loss of sensation, because it's not that common to see.
I ask good people. I don't want to sing with crap people, so I mean, I ask people who are great vocalists, but I'm not going to point out anyone, i have asked several people. Sometimes I feel like I have the plague, or leprosy. Even so, as far as Reba McEntire is concerned, Kelly Clarkson does n’t need Reba McEntire help.
Treating leprosy in humans is relatively straightforward, especially if it's diagnosed early enough, but for animals that aren't habituated to humans, such as these particular populations, it's very difficult to administer antibiotics. There are constraints to treating animals for leprosy and we have to consider the ethical implications of darting chimpanzees, so that makes the question of treatment a complicated one.
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- جذامArabic
- কুষ্ঠ, কুঠBengali
- མཛེ་ནདTibetan Standard
- lepraCatalan, Valencian
- lepra, malomocenstvíCzech
- gwahanglwyfWelsh
- spedalskhedDanish
- Lepra, AussatzGerman
- ޖުޒާމު ބަލިDivehi
- λέπραGreek
- leproEsperanto
- lepraSpanish
- pidalitõbiEstonian
- جذام, خورهPersian
- spitaali, lepraFinnish
- lèpreFrench
- laceira, lepraGalician
- કોઢGujarati
- צרעתHebrew
- कुष्ठ, कोढ़Hindi
- lepraHungarian
- բորArmenian
- kusta, penyakit kustaIndonesian
- kiḷḷiġruaq, auyugaqtuaqInupiaq
- líkþrá, holdsveikiIcelandic
- lebbraItalian
- צרעתHebrew
- 天刑病, 癩病Japanese
- ꦏꦸꦱ꧀ꦠJavanese
- алапесKazakh
- pupinneqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- រោគឃ្លង់Khmer
- ಕುಷ್ಠKannada
- 나병Korean
- mabaLingala
- takewhenua, mumutu, tuwhenuaMāori
- കുഷ്ഠംMalayalam
- уяманMongolian
- kusta, penyakit kustaMalay
- lepra, melaatsheidDutch
- lepra, spedalskhetNorwegian
- ਕੋਢ਼Panjabi, Punjabi
- trąd, lepraPolish
- lepraPortuguese
- lliqti unquyQuechua
- проказаRussian
- कुष्ठरोगSanskrit
- prokaza, gubaSerbo-Croatian
- ලාදුරුSinhala, Sinhalese
- ᮊᮥᮞ᮪ᮒSundanese
- spetälska, lepraSwedish
- ukomaSwahili
- தொழு நோய்Tamil
- కుష్టు వ్యాధిTelugu
- โรคเรื้อนThai
- ketongTagalog
- lepra, cüzzamTurkish
- جذامUrdu
- phong cùiVietnamese
- lepradVolapük
- 麻風Chinese
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