Definition of "lepra" [‖Le•pra]

• Leprosy (noun)

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• "However, he described modern psoriasis under the term lepra vulgaris, which perpetuated confusion of psoriasis and leprosy."
• "I found in this hut a few persons who were suffering from the eruption called "lepra," a disease but too commonly met with in Iceland."
• "Yet I did not see a single case of true lepra Arabum, or its modifications, the huge Barbadoes leg (elephantiasis), and the sarcoma scrotale and sarcocele of Zanzibar and East Africa."