Examples of 'leprosy' in a sentence

Meaning of "leprosy"

leprosy (noun): a chronic infectious disease that affects the skin, peripheral nerves, and mucous membranes
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  • 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.
  • 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 of the Bible.
  • Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
  • A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly

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Discrimination against leprosy victims and their.
Leprosy is not hereditary nor easily transmittable.
This scare word leprosy terrifies people.
Leprosy could cause necrosis and hallucinations.
Discrimination against leprosy victims and families.
The leprosy weakened his immune system.
And immediately his leprosy had been cleansed.
Leprosy can cause necrosis and hallucination.
Tuberculosis and leprosy prevention and control.
Leprosy has very heterogenous clinical manifestations.
The diagnosis of leprosy is primarily a clinical one.
Leprosy has shown an increasing resistance to dapsone.
Her dedication to leprosy patients was highly appreciated.
Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by mycobacterium leprae.
He lives with leprosy like his wife did.

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Leprosy starts as a discolorated spot on your skin.
Immediately the leprosy vanished from him.
And leprosy is not as contagious as we used to think.
Immediately the leprosy left the man.
Her leprosy can not be cured now.
Elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy.
Affected by leprosy and their family members.
That guy looks like he has leprosy.
Too often leprosy control is done as a separate program.
A friend from med school contracted leprosy.
Patients with leprosy shall be hospitalized in leprosaria.
But its not called leprosy anymore.
The leprosy prevention law should be amended.
Reese stops or you will chopper leprosy.
Leprosy is nothing like as infectious as people think it is.
The elimination of leprosy as a public health problem.
Leprosy is curable at all stages of the disease.
A new vaccine for leprosy is currently being tested.
Leprosy is not difficult to diagnose once it is suspected.
Treatment for leprosy can extend up to a year.
Leprosy bacilli are rarely found in intact skin.
It was believed their leprosy was a consequence of their sin.
Leprosy was the most dreaded of all diseases.
There were no legal restrictions to persons affected by leprosy.
The leprosy that worries the people.
They were the ones who cured my leprosy.
Work with leprosy and polio patients.
The example that springs to mind is leprosy.
He believed leprosy to be hereditary and not contagious.
To treat some infections like leprosy antimycobacterial.
This ailment was so severe that it was thought to be leprosy.
Naaman had leprosy and wanted to be healed.
And the leprous man was cleaned of leprosy.
I hope you get leprosy and die.
Twelve percent had a family history of leprosy.

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