(1) Supporting this opinion, the author reports his observations at Madagascar, where no leper of the leper-houses of Madascar center, a plague focus still to-day but very active between 1922 and 1936, contracted plague.
(2) The reason is that both are key members of David Cameron's Eurosceptic caucus in the European parliament and the sort of people whom David Miliband, the foreign secretary, says make him sick: political lepers who should not be seen in civilised company because of their views on the second world war.
(3) He felt, he said later, “like the representative of a leper colony attending the annual garden party of a colonial governor”.
(4) The data obtained should be considered during therapy of lepers to predict and control an unfavorable complication like specific polyneuritis.
(5) This rapid examination is particularly valid during neurologic investigation of the hand in lepers in countries where this disease is endemic, and it forms part of the 10 tests that the author has selected for exploration, within 2 or 3 minutes, in a standing patient, of the facial, ulnar, median, superficial peroneal and posterior tibial nerves.
(6) The relevance of these findings to previous studies of the children of lepers in India is discussed.
(7) Black and Morgan claimed they were treated like lepers as a result of their sexuality.
(8) He thinks that lepers' death was secondary to that of the monks who, at this time, cared for these outcases, and thanks to their self-sacrifice permitted these lepers' survival.
(9) He looked out at the admiring eyes trained on him on Sunday night (the room was considerably more rammed than it had been eight years previously) before heading to the champions' dinner in a flash London hotel he would probably avoid as if it were a leper colony on any other occasion, and he said thanks.
(10) A study of 260 male patients in the Alexandria leper colony showed that 15% of them had uni- or bilateral perception deafness.
(11) "It is like we were treated as lepers in the worst possible way."
(12) The highest prevalences were observed in female prostitutes (7.4%), patients with neurologic syndromes (5.8%), and lepers (13.7%).
(13) It is both the old, sadly familiar experience of plague and disease, of lepers isolated as unclean, of smallpox decimating the American Indians, of a Black Death sweeping medieval Europe, of the 1918 influenza.
(14) Lemur macaco macaco from Ambanja region was found polyparasitized by four different species of Plasmodium: --Plasmodium coulangesi recently described by lepers et al.
(15) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
(16) He grew up in the village of Green Hill Quarry near the Yila Mission, an American Baptist mission hospital and leper colony, according to a lifelong friend and former neighbor, Thomas Kwenah.
(17) The stigma surrounding it contributed, throughout the times, to make the "leper" identified as someone who brought with him danger and death, justifying discriminatory procedures.
(18) The establishment, instead, of an isolated leper colony at the run-down plantation at Carville, 85 miles up-river, was the result of community indifference, misunderstanding of the nature of the disease, and expected depreciation of property values.
(19) Advice have been taken exactly in the leper villages in which the attendance rate is of 98%; this rate varies between 47 to 70% in the all-purpose dispensaries.
(20) The author disproves the opinion of those who think that lepers died from plague.
Loper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.
(n.) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incompatibility group W plasmid pSa suppresses Agrobacterium tumefaciens oncogenicity (J. Loper and C. Kado, J. Bacteriol.
(2) CYP52A2 is located 1 kb upstream from CYP52A1, the previously characterized P450 gene [Sanglard and Loper, Gene 76 (1989) 121-136] and shows the same orientation.
(3) "We were called spies, pryers, mass-eavesdroppers, nosey parkers, peeping-toms, lopers, snoopers, envelope-steamers, keyhole artists, sex maniacs, sissies and society playboys."
(4) This mutant can utilize L-histidinol as sole source of carbon and nitrogen and has a 60-fold increased histidinol dehydrogenase (HDH) content (Dhawale, Creaser & Loper, 1972).