leprology
nounEtymology From New Latin leprologia, from Medieval Latin leprōsia (“leprosy”) + -logia (“-logy”), from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -ia, from lepra (“leprosy”) + -ōsus (“-ose”), q.v. Equivalent to leprosy + -ology.
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Sciences The study of leprosy, particularly (medicine) its diagnosis and treatment.
- Bergen, the oldest city in the Norwegian kingdom, has been called 'the cradle of modern leprology' and one of its native sons, the physician Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, 'the father of leprology'.2014, Tony Gould, A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World:
- Derived terms
- leprologist, leprologic, leprological
- Related terms
- leprosarium