جُذَامٌ

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جُذَامٌ [Elephantiasis; a species of leprosy; the leprosy that pervaded Europe in the latter part of the Middle Ages;] a certain disease, arising from the spreading of the black bile throughout the whole person, so that it corrupts the temperament of the members, and the external condition thereof; and sometimes ending in the dissundering, or corrosion, of the members, and their falling off, in consequence of ulceration; so called because it dissunders the flesh, and causes it to fall off; or because the fingers, or toes, become cut off: it is a cracking of the skin, and a dissundering, and gradual falling off, of the flesh.

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