Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/July 28

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Word of the day
for July 28
lazaretto n
  1. (historical)
    1. A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
    2. (also figuratively) A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to temporarily isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
  2. (by extension, nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.

Today is the eve of the birth anniversary in 1841 of the Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen, who identified the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae as the organism causing leprosy in 1873.

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