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tuberculosis Definition

tu·ber·cu·lo·sis (to̵o bʉr′kyə lōsis, tə-)

noun

an infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles in various tissues of the body; specif., tuberculosis of the lungs; pulmonary phthisis

Etymology: ModL: see tubercle & -osis

tuberculosis Synonyms

tuberculosis

n.

lung disease, pulmonary phthisis, consumption, T.B.*, lung trouble*; see also disease.

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

  • spine: Figure 2. CT scan features of tuberculosis of the thoracic spine: illustrated on a transverse section through the thorax.
  • lung: The tragedy of Chopin's short life was consumption ( tuberculosis of the lungs ).
tuberculosis Quotes

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

—Bojaxhiu

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