English-Greek translations for leprosy

• λέπρα
  Στη Μοκούμπα, υπάρχει ένα επαρχιακό νοσοκομείο στο οποίο οι γυναίκες γεννούν δίπλα στους ασθενείς με AIDS, με λέπρα, με μηνιγγίτιδα, με μεταδοτικές διάρροιες διαφόρων αιτιολογιών. In Mocuba, there is a provincial hospital where women give birth next to patients with Aids, tuberculosis, leprosy, meningitis, and infectious diarrhoeas of all kinds.

Definition of leprosy

• An infectious disease caused by infection by ''Mycobacterium leprae''
• In the Bible, a disease of the skin not conclusively identified, which can also affect clothes and houses

Examples

• The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

Related words

• leprosarium
• antileprosy
• leprose
• Asturian leprosy