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Meaning of leprology | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The study of leprosy, particularly (medicine) its diagnosis and treatment.

uncountable

Equivalents

Italiano leprologia

Examples

“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'.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

leproma lepromatoid lepromin leprophobia leprosaria leprosarium