Path. [f. LEPRA, on the analogy of words like sarcoma.] A leprous tubercle. Hence Lepromatous a., of the nature of a leproma.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xxvi. 385. The leproma, the nerve lesions, and the lepra cell. Ibid., 397. The eyes also [in a leper] are sooner or later attacked, lepromatous growth spreading from the conjunctiva on to the cornea.
