leprology
English
Noun
leprology (uncountable)
- The study of leprosy.
- 2014, Tony Gould, A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World:
- 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'.
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Related terms
- leprologist
- leprosarium