Hansen's disease

Meaning

Noun

  • The disease leprosy, caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae.

Origin

  • Named after Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841-1912), who in 1873 discovered the bacterium causing the disease.

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