What's the difference between leprosity and leprous?
Leprosity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors have observed 135 dislocations of the tarsus in leprosic feet.
(2) Corollary lymphocyte cultures failed to show any suppression by leprosing of the lymphoproliferative responses to tuberculin.
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.