tu·ber·cu·lo·sis
(to͝o-bûr′kyə-lō′sĭs, tyo͝o-)n. Abbr. TB
1. An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the lungs and other tissues of the body, often developing long after the initial infection.
2. Tuberculosis of the lungs, characterized by the coughing up of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain.
[Latin tūberculum, tubercle; see tubercle + -osis.]
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tuberculosis
(tjʊˌbɜːkjʊˈləʊsɪs)n
(Pathology) a communicable disease caused by infection with the tubercle bacillus, most frequently affecting the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis). Also called: consumption or phthisis Abbreviation: TB
[C19: from New Latin; see tubercle, -osis]
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tu•ber•cu•lo•sis
(tʊˌbɜr kyəˈloʊ sɪs, tyʊ-)n.
1. an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, esp. the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
2. this disease when affecting the lungs.
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tu·ber·cu·lo·sis
(to͝o-bûr′kyə-lō′sĭs) A contagious disease caused by a bacterium and characterized by abnormal growths in the lungs or other body tissues. It is most often transmitted by breathing contaminated air.
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tuberculosis
An infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs. It is caused by a bacteria that is often spread from person to person through sneezing and coughing.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  tuberculosis - infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact Pott's disease - TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine miliary tuberculosis - acute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream) phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague, consumption - involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body king's evil, struma - a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands lupus vulgaris - tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars |
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tuberculosis
noun TB, consumption (literary) She spent two years in a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis.
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tuberculosis
nounAn infectious disease producing lesions especially of the lungs:
consumption (no longer in scientific use), phthisic (no longer in scientific use), phthisis (no longer in scientific use), white plague.
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Translations
سُلّمَرَض السِّل
туберкулоза
tuberkulózatuberkolóza
tuberkulose
tuberkuloosi
tuberkuloza
tuberkolózistuberkulózis
berklar
結核
결핵
džiovatuberkuliozė
tuberkuloze
tuberkulóza
jetikatuberkuloza
grudoboljatuberkulozaгрудобољатуберкулоза
tuberculostuberkulos
วัณโรค
bệnh lao
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
tuberculosis
[tjʊˌbɜːrkjʊˈləʊsɪs] n → tuberculose ftube station n (British) → station f de métrotube top n (US) → bustier mtube train n → rame f de métroCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
tuberculosis
n → Tuberkulose f
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
tuberculosis
(tjubəːkjuˈləusis) noun (often abbreviated to TB (tiːˈbiː) ) an infectious disease usually affecting the lungs. He suffers from / has tuberculosis.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
tuberculosis
→ سُلّ tuberkolóza tuberkulose Tuberkulose φυματίωση tuberculosis tuberkuloosi tuberculose tuberkuloza tubercolosi 結核 결핵 tuberculose tuberkulose gruźlica tuberculose туберкулез tuberkulos วัณโรค tüberküloz bệnh lao 肺结核Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
tu·ber·cu·lo·sis
n. tuberculosis, infección bacteriana aguda o crónica causada por el germen Mycobacterium tuberculosis que gen. afecta los pulmones pero que también puede afectar otros órganos;
meningeal ___ → ___ meníngea;
pulmonary ___ → ___ pulmonar;
spinal ___ → ___ espinal;
___ in childhood → ___ infantil;
urogenital ___ → ___ urogenital.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
tuberculosis (TB)
n tuberculosis f (TB); latent — infection infección tuberculosa latenteEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.