Diagnosis, Workup and Treatment. This patient with gradual, painless, blurred vision OD was found to have a unilateral hyperopic shift of 1.5 D from an underlying choroidal mass. The differential diagnosis for a unilateral hyperopic shift includes mechanisms that flatten the cornea, shift the lens posteriorly, or shift the retina anteriorly. In this case, there was an amelanotic choroidal mass that shifted the retina anteriorly.
Q: A: Mycobacterium leprae is the scientific name for the pathogen of Leprosy. It is an intracellular, pleomorphic, acid fast bacterium. M. Leprae is a gram-positive aerobic rod-shaped (bacillus) surrounded by the characteristic waxy coating unique to mycobacteria.hat is the scientific name for leprosy. http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-the-scientific-name-for-leprosy. Leprosy's scientific name is mycobacterium leprae humanum. It's also named  Hansen's disease after its discoverer, G-A Hansen.
The word leprosy comes from ancient Greek Î»Î­ÏÏÎ± [leprÄ], lÃ©prÄ a disease that makes the skin, scaly in, turn a nominal derivation of the VERB [Î»Î­ÏÏ], lepÅ lÃ©pÅ, to peel. SCALE (Off) Î»Î­ÏÎ¿Ï lepos In ancient greek, means peel, or scale SO from Î»Î­ÏÎ¿Ï WE (HAVE Î»ÎµÏÎµÏÏÏ (=Î»ÎµÏÎµÏÏÏ). Î»ÎµÏÏÏÏ leproust remained associated with leprosy throughout its history. The first monks in this order were leper knights, and they originally had leper grand masters, although these aspects of the order changed over the centuries. From this order was derived the name lazar house.