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Also known as Hansen's disease; it is a chronic bacterial infection that damages the nerves (especially in the limbs and facial area) and can cause severe skin damage. If left untreated, very serious complications occur including blindness and disfigurement. Leprosy is spread through droplets of nasal mucus only in the first stages of the disease. ...
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• (n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there ma...
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chronic infectious disease that affects the skin, the peripheral nerves (nerves outside the brain and spinal cord), and the mucous membranes of the ... [12 related articles]
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Also known as Hansen's disease, a chronic disease caused by a myobacterium and virtually restricted to tropical zones. Leprosy leads to skin nodules with loss of pigmentation, mucous membrane lesions in nose and pharynx, and neuritis with nerve thickening, loss of pain sensation, and patchy weakness...
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<infectious disease> Caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular parasite that survives lysosomal enzyme attack by possessing a waxy coat. ... Leprosy is a chronic disease associated with depressed cellular (but not humoral) immunity, the bacterium requires a lower temperature than 37ÂC and thrives particularly in peripheral ...
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(lep´rә-se) a communicable, but not readily contagious, inflammatory disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, with the bacillus entering the body through the skin or mucous membranes; it has occurred in every country in the world, but is now primarily a tropical disease. It is not inherited and is not highly contag...
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Disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae , an obligate intracellular parasite that survives lysosomal enzyme attack by possessing a waxy coat. Leprosy is a chronic disease associated with depressed cellular (but not humoral) immunity; the bacterium requires a lower temperature than 37°C, and thrives particularly in peripheral Schwann cells and macrophages. Only humans and the nine-banded armadillo are susceptible.
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Lep'ro·sy (lĕp'ro*sȳ)
noun [ See
Leprous .]
(Medicine) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: lep′rŏ-sē Definitions: 1. A chronic granulomatous infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae affecting the cooler body parts, especially the skin, peripheral nerves, and testes. Leprosy is classified into two main types, lepromatous and tuberculoid, representing extremes of immunologic response. 2. A name use...
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Leprosy: See: Hansen disease. Common Misspellings: leprecy
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Leprosy (named after the Greek, lepros meaning rough), is a name applied at one time to several different skin diseases characterized by roughness or scaliness. True leprosy is the elephantiasis of the Greeks, the lepra of the Arabs, whose old English name was the myckle ail or great disease. It is to be distinguished from the elephantiasis of the ...
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Hansen's disease Leprosy is caused by an infection with Mycobacterium leprae. The mode of transmission is usually not apparent. The clinical signs and symptoms depend to a great extent on the host immune response to M. leprae. Leprosy is classified on a continuum from tuberculoid, with a good host response to lepromatous, with a poor host immune re...
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[
n] - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions
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leprosy 1. A slowly progressive, chronic infectious disease said to be caused by Mycobacterium leprae and characterized by granulomatous or neurotrophic lesions in the skin, mucous membranes, nerves, bones, and viscera, with a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms. 2. A chronic, mildly contagious granulomatous disease of tropical and subtropical reg...
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Hansen`s disease noun 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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Chronic, progressive disease caused by the bacterium
Mycobacterium leprae, closely related to that of tuberculosis. The infection attacks the skin and nerves. Leprosy is endemic in 28 countries, and confined almost entirely to the tropics. It is controlled with drugs. Worldwide, there were 400,000 new cases of leprosy in 2004, a ...
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