leprosy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Then is it surely a leprosy”

2. isim Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
3. isim Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.

   “Sin is a spiritual leprosy.”

4. isim Ellipsis of murine leprosy or feline leprosy (“diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium”).
5. isim Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.
6. isim Synonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.