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POTT'S DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pott's disease mean? 

POTT'S DISEASE (noun)
  The noun POTT'S DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spineplay

  Familiarity information: POTT'S DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POTT'S DISEASE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Pott's disease" is a kind of...):

T.B.; TB; 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))


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