Synonym: Hansen's disease. Similar words: leprous, sole proprietorship, the pros and cons, rosy, leprechaun, wholesale price, reprove, reproof. Meaning: ['leprəsɪ] 
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.
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. 
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1. His body was deformed by leprosy.
2. Leprosy is one of the few tropical diseases which could be eradicated early in the 21st century.
3. The Brothers continued their involvement in leprosy work.
4. Immunopathology of leprosy granulomas-current status: A review.
5. Leprosy is not a killer disease.
6. In football its an affliction like leprosy.
7. Worldwide, 1. 15 million people suffer from leprosy.
8. You must have heard about our leprosy work.
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9. Had they kept the epidemiology of leprosy in mind, the picture they obtained might have been less pessimistic.
10. The editorial staff of the International Journal of Leprosy took the lead.
11. The spreading leprosy taints ev'ry part, Infects each limb, and sickens at the heart.
12. The belief in Hawaii that leprosy was contagious was accompanied by the thought that the disease might be communicated through vaccination.
13. Leprosy was a disease, no more; it was an unpleasant fact of life, like poverty and illiteracy.
14. Not many physicians know much about leprosy and the new things I find out, I enjoy.
15. Leprosy was known to have a long incubation period-a fact considerably at odds with popular misconceptions about instant deformity.
16. Despite evidence in the 40s that leprosy was rarely contagious and easily treated, lepers were banished to remote islands until 1996.
17. Diseases such as leprosy and polio have almost completely died out.
18. Leprosy probably makes you shudder as well, but how much do you know about it?
19. The ensuing debate, though appearing to involve leprosy, was in reality a fight about territorial status.
20. MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide.
21. He'd pulled away from her as if she had leprosy.
22. Such links contributed to the development among patients of a broader perspective about themselves and about leprosy.
23. But the doctor should know at least a little bit about leprosy.
24. For years the federal government had tried to get people with leprosy to come to Carville.
25. Her hair was disorderly, and the color of her skin was bluish black, which is a sign of incurable leprosy.
26. Among the Scandinavian settlers of the Upper Mississippi Valley, leprosy had declined to near extinction.
27. Expert witnesses speculated that the number of cases of leprosy in the country was between 500 and 2, 500.
28. One complemented the other, and in September 1957, the first mobile leprosy clinic was launched by Archbishop Perier.
29. As editor, Stein did more than bring misinformation about leprosy to his audience.
30. At most times and in most places, sufferers from leprosy have been treated like, well, lepers.
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