| 词汇 | hansen-s disease |
| 词源 | Hansen’s disease. The scientific name, sometimes used eu- phemistically, often given to leprosy. Norwegian doctor Ar- mauer Gerhard Henrik Hansen (1841–1912) discovered the bacillus (Hansen’s bacillus) that causes leprosy and his name soon came to be used as a synonym for the disease itself. |
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