Hansen's disease

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. leprosy.

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Hansen's disease British  

/ ˈhænsənz /

noun

1. pathol another name for leprosy

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Etymology

Origin of Hansen's disease

1935–40; named after G. H. Hansen (1841–1912), Norwegian physician and discoverer of leprosy-causing Mycobacterium leprae

Example Sentences

Through much of the 20th century, Americans with leprosy were forced to live out their lives in isolation at the National Leprosarium—later called the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center—in Louisiana, which initially functioned more like a maximum-security prison.

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Leprosy, a bacterial infection also known as Hansen’s disease, has been curable by a combination of antibiotics since 1981, and the facility closed in 1999.

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People who seek treatment at the outpatient clinic, one of 16 federally supported Hansen’s disease clinics in the U.S., are often overwhelmed by dread, uncertainty and shame, Balquin said.

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“He showed genuine concern for those of us who experienced Hansen’s disease, as well as our families.”

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But he continued seeing patients at the Hansen’s disease clinic up until the week of his death, apparently from a heart attack while he slept.

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