tuberculosis
tuberculosis
Definition
tu·ber·cu·lo·sis (to̵o bʉr′kyə lō′sis, tə-)
tuberculosis
Synonyms
tuberculosis
n.
tuberculosis
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- diagnose: In Leeds city catchment, the figures for diagnosed Tuberculosis are around 115 cases for the year 2004 ( DoH, 2005 ).
Adjective modifier
- bovine: The risk of bovine tuberculosis is higher in England than in Scotland.
- miliary: The resistance may be lowered temporarily by trauma or infectious disease such as measles, and skeletal tuberculosis or miliary tuberculosis may supervene.
- pulmonary: Regrettably, toward the end of his service, he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis.
- multidrug-resistant: This is further complicated by high levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
- drug-resistant: This family of bacteria has been responsible for many of the most serious outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
- resistant: After all, we do have strategies to face drug resistant tuberculosis, malaria and cancers.
Modifies a noun
- sanatorium: The fever hospitals and the tuberculosis sanatoria have now gone.
- bacillus: Those who could not work just wasted away, they had to be treated as tuberculosis bacilli which could infect a healthy organism.
- meningitis: Mycobacterium tuberculosis meningitis: a report of 12 cases and literature review.
- bacterium: Culture of tuberculosis bacteria will take 4 to 12 weeks.
- infection: Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections require treatment with combinations of three or four agents for at least six months.
- sufferer: In 1904 the Lanfine Home for tuberculosis sufferers was added.
Noun used with modifier
- mycobacterium: Tuberculosis is a disease, which is caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- bacterium: Tuberculosis is a disease caused by an infection with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Preposition: in
- Cattle: Bennett, R.M and Willis, K. The Value of Badger Populations and Control of Tuberculosis in Cattle.
- cattle: Badger extermination is not a viable way to control bovine tuberculosis in cattle, researchers in Ireland have decided.
- badger: Badger TB vaccine trial launched A £ 1m field trial of a vaccine to combat tuberculosis in badgers has been launched by the government.
Preposition: of
tuberculosis Quotes
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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