leproma

A fairly well-circumscribed discrete focus of granulomatous inflammation, caused by Mycobacterium leprae, which consists chiefly of an accumulation of large mononuclear phagocytic cells in which the cytoplasm seems finely vacuolated ( i.e., foam cells); the foamlike character of the macrophages is related to the engulfing of numerous acid-fast organisms. [G. lepros, scaly, + -oma, tumor]

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lep·ro·ma le-'prō-mə n, pl -mas also -ma·ta -mət-ə a nodular lesion of leprosy

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n.

a lump on the skin characteristic of leprosy.

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lep·ro·ma (ləp-roґmə) the characteristic lesion of lepromatous leprosy, consisting of a superficial granulomatous nodule rich in Mycobacterium leprae.