PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulmonary tuberculosis mean? 

• PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (noun)
  The noun PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS has 1 sense:

1. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

  Familiarity information: PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

consumption; phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease; white plague

Hypernyms ("pulmonary tuberculosis" 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))