Leprosy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEPROSY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA
• a contagious disease that affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves, causing discoloration and lumps on the skin and, in severe cases, disfigurement and deformities. Leprosy is now mainly confined to tropical Africa and Asia.
• a state of corruption or decay.
• disease attacking the nerves and skin
• A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a chronic disease characterized by skin lesions and deformities

Words related to LEPROSY

lepra7 leprosies11

Words that contain LEPROSY

antileprosy16

How to use LEPROSY in a sentence

• Awed by spiritual terrors, his attendants fell away from him as if he had been smitten by a leprosy.
• This is the law of him that hath the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
• Another day a young man who had contracted leprosy came to Mochuda showing him his misery and his wretched condition.
• She stayed with him until he died and never caught leprosy.
• He told the Brahman how the priest had cured himself of leprosy, and how he and Parwati had become reconciled.
• It will put you out of the matrimonial running as effectually as though it had been circulated that you had leprosy.
• The fact is, the slaveholder feels the leprosy of slavery upon him.
• DOUBAN, the physician, cured a Greek king of leprosy by some drug concealed in a racket handle.
• And on the seventh day when he looketh on it again, if he find that it is grown, it is a fixed leprosy.
• Leviticus Chapter 14 The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy.
• And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been cast out of the house of the Lord.
• Before that our newspapers had created great outcry about a case of leprosy in the city.
• His health had long been undermined by a terrible disease which the chroniclers thought to be leprosy.
• Leprosy may be interpreted as any veil that interveneth between man and the recognition of the Lord, his God.
• In Marrakesh the native doctors are not on any terms with skilled diagnosis, and once a man ventures into Elhara, he acquires a reputation for leprosy that serves his purpose.
• No case of leprosy was ever beyond the power of the Lord to cleanse.
• Foul thoughts, once allowed to enter the mind, stick like the leprosy.
• But under the inspiration of God even a Balaam becomes honest, and the leprosy of Naaman marks the sordid Gehazi and his seed forever.
• It is said that he suffered from leprosy and that his death was hastened by the shock caused by a terrible thunderstorm on St.
• The natives appeared to be healthy with the exception of a sort of leprosy, from which many of them were suffering.
• The staircase walls were half rotten with damp and covered with saltpetre to such a degree that the house seemed to be stricken with leprosy.
• The doctor then pronounced that the son and heir was suffering from leprosy, and for that there was no cure.
• Here he cast anchor in a channel near a small island in which there are six or seven houses appointed for persons who are afflicted with the leprosy, who come there to be cured.
• When a man gets to that stage of leprosy he does not care much for society, particularly if no one will have anything to do with him.
• Like the Syrian captain Naaman, when offered relief of his leprosy by the prophet Elisha, they resented the simple process by which their own relief was to be effected.
• Helena leprosy again and impose further humiliation upon them.
• Surely there was, at least, the beginning of a living union with Jesus, which would heal more than the leprosy of the flesh.

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