leprology

English

Noun

leprology (uncountable)

  1. 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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