What's the difference between leperous and leprous?
Leperous
Definition:
(a.) Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Leprous
Definition:
(a.) Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.
(a.) Leprose.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is very difficult to say whether heart disease was due to any other cause associated with leprosy or due to leprous affection of myocardium.
(2) The production of reversal reactions in leprous nude mice in response to adoptively transferred CMI was studied in a quantitative fashion.
(3) It is suggested that Lazarine leprosy may result from enhanced lepromatous leprous infection occurring as a result of protein malnutrition.
(4) We detected substantial amounts of mycobacterial antigen in 16 leprous lymph nodes using anti-BCG by the peroxidase anti-peroxidase method.
(5) The present report describes a similar study, using TNS treatment in attempts to accelerate healing of chronic leprous ulcers that had resisted treatment for several months or years.
(6) With an immunoperoxidase method to localize lysozyme in leprous tissues, two distinct staining patterns were found, granular and saccular.
(7) In 1856 it was decided that all leprous patients should be examined by the local doctor (District Health Officer), and registered in a national leprosy register.
(8) Few studies have been published on large series of leprous neuritis patients treated surgically.
(9) The study demonstrates a clear therapeutic effect for low-frequency TNS in patients with leprous ulcers.
(10) In a yeast extract, glycerol and sheep serum containing medium, slow but abundant growth of mycobacteria occurred when media were inoculated with M. leprae isolated from leprous tissues of armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus Linn.).
(11) Furthermore, all leprosy patients with B8 had leprous member(s) in their family.
(12) It would be a great thing if one of [the] alternatives [aspirants] garners a large enough number of votes to show thinking Nigerians that there could be a third force, because in reality, both the [incumbent] PDP and the [opposition] APC are rotten fingers of the same leprous hand,” wrote Chxta , a prominent Nigerian blogger.
(13) The hepatitis B virus markers were studied on 553 leprous sera and 100 controls sera.
(14) For eighty-six cases of leprous paralysis of the intrinsic muscles of the hand, a modified Bunnell opponensplasty (transfer of a finger flexor) was done.
(15) From none of these liver homogenates were acid-fast bacilli grown on culture in Löwenstein-Jensen medium.The alterations in liver functions were more consistently seen when acid-fast bacilli were associated with the presence of leprous granulomatous lesions.
(16) In the dermal hypersensitivity assay, the guinea pigs sensitized with soluble antigens of M. lepraemurium only responded to the antigens of M. lepraemurium, M. leprae and partly to M. scrofulaceum, but not to other antigens, including lepromin and leprous serum globulins.
(17) Twelve cases were of diabetic neuropathy (DN), nine of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), eight of idiopathic, six of leprous, three of toxic neuropathy and one each of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) and carcinomatous neuropathy.
(18) A list of published applications includes use in therapy for postherpetic neuralgia, increased peripheral circulation, itching, varicose ulcers, ischemic ulcers, diabetic neuropathy, leprous neuritis, would healing, increased survival of skin flaps, Raynaud's phenomenon, scleroderma, esophageal dysmotility, and glossodynia.
(19) Mycobacteria were isolated from pooled leprous tissues of an armadillo.
(20) In view of the phagocytic propensity of schwann cells for M. leprae as the important factor in leprous neuritis, TC preparations of gliomas, (in addition to acoustic schwannomas and meningiomas), were inoculated with two mycobacteria, M. scrofulaceum and the ICRC bacillus.