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touch-me-not(medicine)
In touch with(money)
touch-and-go(dictionary)
Touch, the(money)
Touch, the(finance)
touch(medicine)
touch-me-not(encyclopedia)

rat leprosy (medicine) and touch-needle (medicine)


rat leprosy (medicine)


rat leprosy


A slowly but progressively fatal form of leprosy occurring in rats, caused by Mycobacterium lepraemurium; it appears in two forms, glandular and musculocutaneous; causes induration, alopecia, and eventually ulceration.

Synonym: mouse leprosy, murine leprosy.


touch-needle (medicine)


touch-needle
<chemistry> A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

Source: Websters Dictionary