Synonyms for leprosy
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Noun
1. Leper — an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and…
measles, leper dated, elephantiasis dated, lepra dated, mesel dated, leprosity dated
Other
scabies, glanders, leprosarium, melas dated
Definitions
- n. 1
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
Related words
- Word family
- leproid leprosied leprosity leprotic leper leprologic leprological lepromatic
Forms
- Plural
- leprosies → lepers, elephantiases, mesels, leprosities…
Example sentences
- measles Measles was eliminated in the U.S. 19 years ago.
- scabies Everyone ran away from me as if I had scabies.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| leprosy | falling | |
| measles | steady | |
| scabies | steady | |
| glanders | falling | |
| leprosarium | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- leper2, melas, lepra, mesel
- 7 letters
- measles2, scabies
- 8 letters
- glanders
- 9 letters
- leprosity
- 11 letters
- leprosarium
- 13 letters
- elephantiasis6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (leper2 = 2 syllables).