Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.
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- noun A place or institution (such as a colony, house or
hospital used) for thetreatment ofleprosy .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The day the Viet Cong raided the leprosarium was a Wednesday.
Vietti, Eleanor A. 1962
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"The nine miles from Ban Me Thuot to the leprosarium was the longest nine miles in the world."
Vietti, Eleanor A. 1962
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By 1914, the site was designated a national leprosarium and President Woodrow Wilson assigned $250,000 for the “care and treatment of people affected with leprosy.”
The Sanctuary of Outcasts (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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He was working in the laboratory of a leprosarium when he and Guevara took to the road.
Alberto Granado, Che Guevara's motorcycle companion, dies at 88 2011
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By 1914, the site was designated a national leprosarium and President Woodrow Wilson assigned $250,000 for the “care and treatment of people affected with leprosy.”
Archive 2009-09-01 ____Maggie 2009
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Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak.
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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Cortés built a leprosarium, the Hospital de San Lázaro, named for the patron saint of lepers, in Tlaxpana, outside Mexico City.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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"Founded in 1894 as a state leprosarium in nearby Carville, La., the center is considered the premier research and treatment facility in the world for leprosy," The Post reports.
Old myths about leprosy still around BA Haller 2008
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My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot,
Benge letter 1999
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Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.
Enough already 1999
chained_bear commented on the word leprosarium
"It is possible that there were about 19,000 leprosariums in Europe by the time Robert the Bruce was born..."
—Michael Howell and Peter Ford, The Ghost Disease, and Twelve Other Stories of Detective Work in the Medical Field, (New York: Penguin Books, 1985), 294
September 11, 2008