TUBERCULOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tuberculosis mean? 

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

1. 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)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUBERCULOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

T.B.; TB; tuberculosis

Hypernyms ("tuberculosis" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tuberculosis"):

Pott's disease (TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine)

miliary tuberculosis (acute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream))

consumption; phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease; white plague (involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body)

king's evil; scrofula; struma (a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands)

lupus vulgaris (tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars)

Derivation:

tubercular (constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus)

tubercular (relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it)

tubercular (characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles)

 Context examples 

This antibiotic is active against most gram-positive and gram-negative organisms and is used in the treatment of tuberculosis and tulemia.

(Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to treat tuberculosis.

(Cycloserine, NCI Dictionary)

Tuberculosis of the bones or joints.

(Bone Tuberculosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is used in a solution to stimulate the immune system in the treatment of bladder cancer and as a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.

(bacillus Calmette-Guérin, NCI Dictionary)

A nicotinamide derivative, with antibacterial activity, used to treat tuberculosis.

(Ethionamide, NCI Thesaurus)

Tuberculosis and a serious related disease, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are bacterial infections.

(HIV/AIDS and Infections, NIH)

It is the causative agent of tuberculosis in voles.

(Mycobacterium microti, NCI Thesaurus)

It is most commonly found in West African countries and causes symptoms of infection resembling those of M. tuberculosis.

(Mycobacterium africanum, NCI Thesaurus)

They aren't "typical" because they don't cause tuberculosis.

(Mycobacterial Infections, NIH)

Describes a drug or effect that works against tuberculosis (a contagious bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs).

(Antitubercular Agent, NCI Dictionary)