hansen's disease

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Definition of hansen's disease in English Turkish dictionary

hansen hastalığı

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Definition of hansen's disease in English English dictionary

The disease leprosy

{i} leprosy (named after Gerhard A.Hansen who first identified the leprosy microbe in 1873)

Related Terms

Hansen disease

{i} Hansen's disease, leprosy (named after Gerhard A.Hansen who first identified the leprosy microbe in 1873)

Hyphenation

hansen's dis·ease

Turkish pronunciation

hänsınz dîziz

Pronunciation

/ˈhansənz dəˈzēz/ /ˈhænsənz dɪˈziːz/

Etymology

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