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leprosarium

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lep·ro·sar·i·um  (lpr-sâr-m)
n. pl. lep·ro·sar·i·ums or lep·ro·sar·i·a (--)
A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.
[Medieval Latin leprsrium, from Late Latin leprsus, leprous; see leprous.]
leprosarium [ˌlɛprəˈsɛərɪəm]
n pl -ia [-ɪə]
(Medicine) a hospital or other centre for the treatment or care of lepers
[from Medieval Latin: see leper]


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Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak.
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