pulmonary tuberculosis

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pulmonary tuberculosis - involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body phthisis, wasting disease, white plague, consumption T.B., tuberculosis, TB - 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)

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