Answer | Crossword Clue |
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leprosy | a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA |
leprosies | LEPROSY, a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPRA |
lepras | LEPRA, a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPROSY |
lepra | a chronic disease with skin lesions and deformities, also LEPROSY |
yaws | a contagious tropical disease caused by a spirochete (Treponema pertenue) closely resembling the causative agent of syphilis and marked by infectious ulcerative skin lesions with later bone involvement called also frambesia |
scabies | (used with a sing. v.) contagious skin disease occurring esp. in sheep and cattle and also in humans, caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin |