💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Leaprosy"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| leprosynoun | (pathology, 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. |
| melasnoun | (medicine, uncommon) Synonym of melasma. |
| meselnoun | (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leper. |
| hansen's diseasenoun | (pathology) The disease leprosy, caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae. |
| lepromanoun | (pathology) An area of inflammation in the skin symptomatic of leprosy |
| elephantiasisnoun | (pathology) A complication of chronic filariasis, in which nematode worms block the lymphatic vessels, usually in the legs or scrotum, causing extreme enlargement of the infected area. |
| hansen's bacteriumnoun | Mycobacterium lepromatosis, the bacterium that causes leprosy (Hansen's disease). |
| leptonoun | (informal, biology) Abbreviation of leptospira. [Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.] |
| leishmaniasisnoun | (pathology) Any of various ulcerative skin diseases caused by any of the protozoans of the genus Leishmania, transmitted to humans and animals by bloodsucking sandflies. |
| luesnoun | (dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis. |
| cutaneous leishmaniasisnoun | (pathology) The most common form of leishmaniasis, a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania, which presents with open, ulcerative skin lesions. |
| parasyphilisnoun | (medicine, archaic) Any form of neurosyphilis that formerly was known to be correlated with late-stage syphilis but was misapprehended to be distinct from it. |
| tularæmianoun | Obsolete spelling of tularemia. [(pathology) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.] |
| measlesnoun | (pathology) An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes. |
| typhosnoun | Obsolete form of typhus. [(pathology) Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.] |
| ablepsianoun | (medicine, rare) Lack of sight; blindness. |
| myelosyphilisnoun | (medicine, archaic) Syphilis of the spinal cord: a form of neurosyphilis (today the diagnosis would be neurosyphilis, as the implication that the rest of the central nervous system is spared is baseless). |
| leptospirosisnoun | An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira. |
| neuroleptospirosisnoun | (pathology) leptospirosis of the nervous system |
| aleppo boilnoun | (medicine, archaic) A chronic skin disorder terminating in an ulcer, thought to be caused by the protozoan Leishmania tropica. |
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