Definition of Leprosies

1. Noun. (plural of leprosy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leprosies

1. leprosy [n] - See also: leprosy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leprosies

leprologist
leprology
leproma
lepromatous
lepromatous leprosy
lepromin
lepromin reaction
lepromin skin test
lepromin test
leprosaria
leprosarium
leprosariums
leprose
leprosery
leprosied
leprosies (current term)
leprosity
leprostatic
leprostatic agents
leprosy
leprosy bacillus
leprosy test
leprosylike
leprotic
leprous
leprous neuropathy
leprously
lepry
leps
lept

Literary usage of Leprosies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1883)
"lying-in hospitals, lunatic asylums, leprosies, ambulances, in the natives:—Models, plans, and drawings of civil and military hospitals, the colonies. ..."

2. Reply to Rev. Dr. Woods' "Lecture on Swedenborgianism ;": Delivered in the by George Bush, William Benjamin Hayden, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Richard Kenner Crallé, Catherine Crowe, Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner, John Clowes, Massachusetts New-Church Union, Swedenborg Foundation (1847)
"... fevers, leprosies, cancers,—offensive diseases inward or outward, especially those which defile the face, faintness epilepsy, rupture, &c. ..."

3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"It is made by drowning live vipers in the wine: it cures leprosies and the French disease. 9. Powder of vipers compound. It is made as that of serpents, ..."

4. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1907)
"575, L 38, _/0>- •• white leprosies " read " leprous eruptions " or " divers kinds of leprosies." p. ..."

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