1530s (earlier lepruse, mid-15c.), from leprous; see leper. First used in Coverdale Bible, where it renders Hebrew cara'ath, which apparently was a comprehensive term for skin diseases. Because of pejorative associations, the use of the word in medical context has been banned by the World Health Organization and replaced by Hansen's disease (1938), named for Norwegian physician Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912) who in 1871 discovered the bacillus that causes it.
实用例句
1. He'd pulled away from her as if she had leprosy.
他离她远远的，好像她得了麻风病似的。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His body was deformed by leprosy.
他的身体因为麻风病变形了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide.
联合化疗是一种有望治愈全世界所有麻风病患者的有效治疗方法。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur.
谋虚逐妄的麻痹症毁坏了伺候着爵爷的每一个人.
来自辞典例句
5. They kill the leprosy bacteria, and the corpses get tossed into the system.
