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Hansen's disease (medicine) and vaccine (iou)


Hansen's disease (medicine)


Hansen's disease
<infectious disease> Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous infection of humans by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. Leprosy affects the superficial tissues, especially the skin and peripheral nerves. It is estimated that there are between 10 and 20 million persons affected with leprosy in the world. Leprosy is most common in tropical climates (even as close as Mexico), but quite rare in the United States. Ninety percent of the cases diagnosed in the U.S. Have occurred in immigrants from leprosy-endemic countries. Some sporadic reports of leprosy have come out of Hawaii and the Gulf Coastal areas of the U.S.


vaccine (iou)



vaccine adjective & noun. L18.
[Latin vaccinus (as used in mod. Latin variolae vaccinus cowpox, virus vaccinus cowpox vaccine), from vacca cow: see -INE1.]
A. adjective (now rare).
Medicine. Designating, appearing in, or characteristic of the disease of cowpox; designating or pertaining to the causative agent of cowpox. L18.
Of, or pertaining to, or derived from cows. E19.
b. noun.
Medicine. A preparation of the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, that has been specially treated for use in vaccination; orig. spec., a preparation of vaccinia (cowpox) for inoculation against smallpox. E19.
Hib vaccine, Sabin vaccine, Salk vaccine, etc. triple vaccine: see TRIPLE adjective & adverb.
Computing. A program designed to protect a computer system from the effect of destructive Software such as a virus. Also vaccine program. L20.
Special collocations & comb.: vaccine damage harm, esp. serious, caused by a vaccine. vaccine-damaged adjective subjected to vaccine damage. vaccine disease = cowpox s.v. COW noun1. vaccine lymph, vaccine matter an extract containing the causative agent of cowpox, formerly employed in vaccination. vaccine program: see sense B.2 above. vaccine therapy treatment of a disease with an appropriate vaccine.