dimorphous leprosy

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• dimorphous leprosy — borderline l …   Medical dictionary

• Leprosy — A chronic granulomatous infection caused by a bacillus (bacterium) that affects various areas of the body, particularly the skin and nerves. (Granulomas are inflammatory nodules that are usually small, granular, firm, and persistent.) The… …   Medical dictionary

• borderline leprosy — an immunologically unstable type of leprosy, transitional between the tuberculoid and lepromatous forms and having clinical and histological features of both types; it may evolve toward the former by a reversal reaction or toward the latter by a… …   Medical dictionary