mycobacterium leprae

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   cause of leprosy

   Synonymsleprosy bacillus

   Broadermycobacteria

Questions about mycobacterium leprae

What does mycobacterium leprae mean?

mycobacterium leprae means "cause of leprosy".

What is another word for mycobacterium leprae?

Close synonyms include leprosy bacillus. 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 mycobacterium leprae a common word?

mycobacterium leprae 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.