hansen's disease

Questions about hansen's disease

What does hansen's disease mean?

hansen's disease means "chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae".

What is another word for hansen's disease?

Close synonyms include leprosy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hansen's disease a common word?

hansen's disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.