leprosy / ˈlɛp rə si /

⚽高中词汇麻风病麻风麻疯病麻风病患者

leprosy 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Pathology.

  1. 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.

更多leprosy例句

  1. Pauling went on to claim that high doses of the supplement could cure everything from heart disease to leprosy, and even cancer.
  2. A disease known for millennia, leprosy had been common in Europe in the Middle Ages.
  3. After a “miracle” sulfone antibiotic cure was introduced to the leprosy settlement in 1946, people were no longer contagious.
  4. 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.
  5. Similarly, diseases such as tuberculosis, leprosy Advertisement and measles have been with us for several millennia.