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Hansen's disease

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Noun
  1. 1
    The disease leprosy, caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae. uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

Named after Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912), who in 1873 discovered the bacterium causing the disease.

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