leprosy
/lep-ruh-see/US // ˈlɛp rə si //UK // (ˈlɛprəsɪ) //
麻风病,麻风,麻疯病,麻风病患者
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Pathology.
- : a chronic, mildly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the peripheral nervous system, skin, and nasal mucosa and variously characterized by ulcerations, tubercular nodules, and loss of sensation that sometimes leads to traumatic amputation of the anesthetized part.
Examples
Pauling went on to claim that high doses of the supplement could cure everything from heart disease to leprosy, and even cancer.
A disease known for millennia, leprosy had been common in Europe in the Middle Ages.
After a “miracle” sulfone antibiotic cure was introduced to the leprosy settlement in 1946, people were no longer contagious.
Upon attaining a series of negative bacteriological tests, inmates were allowed temporary medical release and could travel, live and seek employment outside the leprosy settlement in the 1950s.
Similarly, diseases such as tuberculosis, leprosy Advertisement and measles have been with us for several millennia.
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