leproman.
/lɛˈprəʊmə/, U.S. /lɛˈproʊmə/ Medicine.
A circumscribed area of granulomatous inflammation, esp. in the skin or subcutaneous tissue, symptomatic of leprosy.
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1881 Lancet 13 Aug. 307/2 Dr. Abraham also exhibited under the microscope excellent specimens showing..hypertrophy of the sebaceous glands in the neighbourhood of a leprous papule (leproma).
1895 N. Walker tr. G. H. A. Hansen & C. Looft Leprosy ii. 5 The leprous nodes [of nodular leprosy] or nodular Lepromata are of different size and colour; their consistence is at first firm and hard... Their form is usually semi-spherical, but they are often oblong.
1947 R. G. Cochrane Pract. Textbk. Leprosy viii. 81 We are convinced..that the majority of lepromas commence from pre-lepromatous macules..; some, however, develop from the simple macular lesions.
1970 G. J. Hill Leprosy in Five Young Men iv. 103 The mixture [sc. lepromin] is essentially a sterile emulsion of lepromas—that is, nodules excised from patients with lepromatous leprosy.
2007 Ophthalmology 114 1908/2 Lepromas the size of large peas may be found at the margin of eyelids and may ulcerate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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