Definition of vassal. 1 : a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant.
lecternnoun [ C ] uk â /Ëlek.tÉn/ us â /Ëlek.tÉËn/. âº a piece of furniture with a sloping part on which a book or paper is put to be read from. (Definition of âlecternâ from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press)
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).