English Dictionary

leprosy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɛpɹəsi/

名詞

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(medicine) 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.

日本語の意味

ハンセン病：Mycobacterium lepraeという細菌によって引き起こされ、徐々に神経障害や皮膚の壊死斑を生じ、歴史的には患者が恒久的に隔離されていた感染症。

Researchers are developing new therapies to prevent nerve damage in patients diagnosed with leprosy, a chronic infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae.

研究者たちは、Mycobacterium leprae（らい菌）によって引き起こされる慢性感染症であるハンセン病と診断された患者の神経障害を防ぐための新しい治療法を開発しています。

意味（1）

(medicine) 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

意味（2）

(medicine, now usually proscribed) 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.

意味（3）

(figuratively) 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.

意味（4）

Ellipsis of murine leprosy. and feline leprosy, diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.

意味（6）

(obsolete, rare) Synonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.

leprosies （ plural ）