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 Definitions of tuberculosis  [ʊˌbɜr kyəˈloʊ sɪs, tyʊ-]  

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Definition of 'tuberculosis' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) tuberculosis
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.  tuberculosis
this disease when affecting the lungs.

Etymology:  (1740–50)

Definition of 'tuberculosis' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
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)


Definition of 'tuberculosis' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) tuberculosis
a constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption


Definition of 'tuberculosis' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  tuberculosis
Any of the infectious diseases of man and other animals caused by species of MYCOBACTERIUM.


Translation of 'tuberculosis' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (often abbreviated toTB
He suffers from / has tuberculosis.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: tuberkulose Arabic flag Arabic: مَرَض السِّل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: туберкулоза
Brazilian flag Brazilian: tuberculose Czech flag Czech: tuberkulóza German flag German: die Tuberkulose
Danish flag Danish: tuberkulose Greek flag Greek: φυματίωση Spanish flag Spanish: tuberculosis
Estonian flag Estonian: tiisikus Farsi flag Farsi: سل Finnish flag Finnish: tuberkuloosi
French flag French: tuberculose Hebrew flag Hebrew: שַחֶפֶת Hindi flag Hindi: क्षयरोग
Croatian flag Croatian: tuberkuloza, sušica Hungarian flag Hungarian: tuberkolózis Indonesian flag Indonesian: penyakit paru
Icelandic flag Icelandic: berklar Italian flag Italian: tubercolosi Japanese flag Japanese: 結核
Korean flag Korean: 결핵 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: tuberkuliozė, džiova Latvian flag Latvian: tuberkuloze
Malay flag Malay: batuk kering Dutch flag Dutch: tuberculose Norwegian flag Norwegian: tuberkulose
Polish flag Polish: gruźlica Persian flag Persian: سل Pashto flag Pashto: نری رنځ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: tuberculose Romanian flag Romanian: tuberculoză Russian flag Russian: туберкулёз
Slovak flag Slovak: tuberkulóza Slovenian flag Slovenian: tuberkuloza Serbian flag Serbian: tuberkuloza
Swedish flag Swedish: tuberkulos Thai flag Thai: วัณโรค Turkish flag Turkish: verem, tüberküloz
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 肺結核(TB) Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: туберкульоз Urdu flag Urdu: ٹي بي، دق، سل
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bệnh lao Chinese flag Chinese: 肺结核(TB)

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