lep'rosy

[G. leprosis, leproS, scaly.] 1. disease of Biblical times, the nature of which is uncertain, but which might have been psoriasis or a leucoderma. 2. chronic disease believed to be due to the presence of Bacillus lepree or Hansen's bacillus, elephantiasis Graecorum. It occurs in two principal forms: tubercular- I., affecting the skin and subcutaneous ti ues, and anesthetic I., affecting mainly the nerves, anesthet'ic 1., a form affecting the nerves chiefly, marked by hyperesthesia succeeded by anesthesia, by paralysis, ulceration, and various trophic disturbances, terminating in gangrene and mutilation, artic'ular 1., mutilating 1., a late stage of