dictionary help| Danielssen's disease --> anaesthetic leprosy | medical dictionary |
<neurology> A form of leprosy chiefly affecting the nerves, marked by hyperesthesia succeeded by anaesthesia, and by paralysis, ulceration, and various trophic disturbances, terminating in gangrene and mutilation.
Synonyms: Danielssen's disease, Danielssen-Boeck disease, dry leprosy, trophoneurotic leprosy.
American spelling: anesthetic leprosy
(05 Mar 2000)
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