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.
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31. The disease of tuberculosis is more dangerously infectious than that of leprosy....
32. In order to save her life the doctors stopped the treatment for the leprosy.
33. The 1916 Senate hearings produced no debate on the question of whether concern about leprosy was in the national interest.
34. Later, they went regularly to Dhapa, the large leprosy colony in Calcutta, where they tended the sick.
35. The failure to find a vaccine for leprosy led scientists early on to conclude that the disease was hopeless.
36. The incidence of leprosy in the country was expected to increase as a result of the war.
37. A couple deformed by leprosy came to meet the Sisters, and claimed that Santosh was their child.
38. There was nearly unanimous support for a national leprosy bill among the fourteen witnesses who testified.
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39. The alchemists observed a stage in the opus which they called variously the leprosy of the metals or the blessed greenness.
40. New York City health authorities also took a benign view of leprosy.
41. Improved drugs promised relief from the physical disabilities of leprosy.
42. Although the evidence was mounting that leprosy was contagious, the view was not unanimously held.
43. The disease first came to international public notice in the 1860s, when leprosy was reported to be spreading in Hawaii.
44. Some had leprosy and other people's backs were crooked from carrying the heavy containers.
45. Although the new practices elevated patient morale, they had little effect on the overall structure of the leprosy control program.
46. What is certain is that leprosy will remain a social disease long after it has been eliminated as a medical condition.
47. Furthermore, there were many differences of opinion regarding the question of just how contagious leprosy was and how it was transmitted.
48. Once there used to be a leprosy hospital in Calcutta called the Gobra Hospital, located on the outskirts of the city.
49. Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.
50. In fact leprosy is the least infectious of all the communicable diseases.
51. Disagreement among experts about medical treatment in leprosy created confusion among patients and eroded their confidence in physicians.
52. They were more beneficial in a disease caused by another Mycobacterium, leprosy.
53. Leprosy was special in that it was perceived as an affront to the nation.
54. As gum tissues and feet are physically sensitive areas in persons with leprosy, these complaints reflected on medical care.
55. On receipt of the above recommendations, a special committee of the National Leprosy Fund was appointed to review the report.
56. Nor were all convinced that leprosy warranted being singled out for special attention.
57. Early in the 1890s, physicians in California were having a hard time reconciling their scientific knowledge about leprosy with their sinophobia.
58. As the onset of leprosy is slow, it will take at least 10 years to produce positive results.
59. This change in status is implicit in discussions of whether the U. S. Government had the constitutional power to nationalize leprosy.
60. The fate of Father Damien in Hawaii had an enormous impact on Western thinking about leprosy.
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