Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hansen's_disease

1 sense of hansen's disease

Sense 1
leprosy, Hansen's disease -- (chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae)
       => infectious disease -- (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)