Leprosy

Noun

 * 1)  An infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.
 * The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.
 * 1) In the Bible, a disease of the skin not conclusively identified, which can also affect clothes and houses.

Synonyms

 * Hansen's disease
 * mesel

Derived terms

 * antileprosy

Related terms

 * leper
 * leprous
 * leprotic

Thesaurus
African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acne, acne vulgaris, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, eczema, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, epithelioma, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, heat rash, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hives, hookworm, hydrophobia, impetigo, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, itch, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leptospirosis, lichen, lichen primus, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, lupus, lupus vulgaris, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, miliaria, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pemphigus, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, psittacosis, psora, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, skin cancer, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, tetter, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

Etymology
From leprosia:.

Translations

 * Arabic: جذام
 * Bengali:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 麻風病 or 麻瘋病, 麻风病, 癩病, 癞病
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ޖުޒާމު ބަލި
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: λέπρα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi: कुष्ठ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, líkþrá,
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 癩病, 天刑病
 * Khmer: រោគឃ្លង់
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:, prokaza
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: కుష్టు వ్యాధి
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: جذام
 * Vietnamese: phong cùi