Anaplastic large cell lymphoma describes several types of T-cell lymphomas and accounts for approximately 12 percent to 15 percent of all T-cell lymphomas in adults and between 10 percent and 30 percent of all lymphomas in children. It can be divided into three types.
Definition of leprosy for English Language Learners. medical : a serious disease that causes painful rough areas on the skin and that badly damages nerves and flesh.
Article. Leprosy (Hansen's disease) is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. 1,2 Though often considered a disease of antiquity, it is found most commonly today in tropical and semitropical regions, and a total of 249,007 new cases were reported globally in 2008.etails of the M. leprae strains obtained from 50 patients with leprosy and 33 wild armadillos in the United States are given in Table S1 in the Supplementary Appendix (available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org).