RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A leprosy that results in early cutaneous lesions which consist of pale macules that are small, diffuse, and symmetric. This form of leprosy is characterized by hypoesthesia over extensor surfaces of the distal extremities, alopecia affecting lateral aspects of the eyebrows, saddle-nose deformity and oral lepromas. (DO)
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Cutaneous Leprosy; cutaneous leprosies; lepromatous leprosies; nodular leprosies; nodular leprosy; type L leprosy