Synonyms for leprosy
ˈlɛp rə silep·rosy

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1. leprosynoun

   Synonyms:
   Hansens disease, mesel

2. leprosynoun

   An infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.

   The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

   Synonyms:
   Hansens disease, mesel

3. leprosynoun

   In the Bible, a disease of the skin not conclusively identified, which can also affect clothes and houses.

   Synonyms:
   Hansens disease, mesel

Princeton's WordNet

1. leprosy, Hansen's diseasenoun

   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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1. List of paraphrases for "leprosy":

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1. David Scollard:

   If leprosy is not controlled in the world, we'll continue to see it in immigration.

2. Thoko Elphick-Pooley:

   We can use the impetus we have now from COVID to deal with some of those diseases, like leprosy, which was around thousands of years ago and is still around, we get outraged by diseases that kill, but not by diseases that disable.

3. Paulus Manek:

   We’re not going all out to prevent leprosy, the contacts are not traced. Even though the government has good regulations in place, enforcement on the ground is patchy.

4. Ann Aerts:

   Children with leprosy don't get a chance, they start their lives excluded because they have no more fingers or they cannot close their eyes any more, and you see how they suffer because they were not diagnosed in time.

5. Abinash Virk:

   The physician in India who is familiar with leprosy would see a patch and quickly do a test for a loss of sensation. Here, you wouldn't even test for loss of sensation, because it's not that common to see.