| lepra |
The term lepra was formerly given to various skin diseases, the leprosy of modern authors being Lepra Arabum. [CancerWEB]
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| lepra b. |
Mycobacterium leprae.
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| lepra c. |
a histiocyte in a leprous nodule that has been converted by the action of lepra bacilli into a sac containing degenerated protoplasm and bacilli; called also Virchow c.
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| lepra r. |
an acute or subacute hypersensitivity state occurring during the course of anti-leprosy treatment or in untreated leprosy categories, involving two types of immunological reactions, one a delayed hypersensitivity reaction (see reversal r's) and the other an immune complex reaction (see erythema nodosum leprosum).
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| lepra alba |
A form of lepra in which the skin is anesthetic and white, associated with different forms of paralysis.
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