leprosy

FREQ #22633

n. 麻疯病, 腐败 [医] 麻风

发音

其它 /ˈlɛpɹəsi/

词形变化

leprosies 复数 leprosies

别名

leaprosy leprosie

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    不可数 医学
  2. 2.

    Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.

    比喻 不可数

    Sin is a spiritual leprosy.

  3. 3.

    A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly

    Ellipsis of murine leprosy or feline leprosy (“diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium”).

    不可数
  4. 4.

    A contagious disease causing similar effects in animals, particularly

    Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.

    废旧 不可数
  5. 5.

    Synonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.

    废旧 罕用 不可数
  6. 6.

    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.

    痳疯病

    麻风病

    癞病

    不可数 医学

    Then is it surely a leprosy

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

Hansen's disease

上位词 1

infectious disease

相关短语

fretting leprosy

词源

From Norman leprosie, from Middle French leprosie (“leprosy & similar skin diseases”), probably from leprous (“leprous”) + -ie (“-y”) but possibly from Medieval Latin leprōsia (leprōsus + -ia) although this only historically attested in reference to leprosariums. The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of λέπρα (lépra) to translate Hebrew צרעת (“tzaraath”) in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin.

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