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(medicine, archaic) Synonym of leprosy. quotations
Lepra is an endemic, chronic, malignant, constitutional disease, due to a specific bacillus.
1914, Henry Weightman Stelwagon, Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, 7th edition, page 914
(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of psoriasis. quotations
Lepra and psoriasis are identical, though the two names are retained.
1864, William Tilbury Fox, Skin Diseases, page 43
(botany, rare, obsolete) Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants. quotations
Lepra is frequently met with on the trunks, especially of young trees.
1805, translation of Karl Ludwig Willdenow as The Principles of Botany and of Vegetable Physiology, p. 344