English Explanatory Dictionary

Hansen's disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The disease leprosy, caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.

Word forms

Hansen's disease

Etymology

Named after Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912), who in 1873 discovered the bacterium causing the disease.

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