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Noun: tuberculosis  too`bur-kyu'low-sis [N. Amer], t(y)u`bur-kyu'low-sis [Brit]
  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)
    - TB, T.B.

Derived forms: tuberculosises

See also: tubercular, tuberculoid

Type of: infectious disease

Encyclopedia: Tuberculosis, cardiovascular Tuberculosis, meningeal Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, bovine Tuberculosis, pulmonary Tuberculosis, spinal Tuberculosis, miliary Tuberculosis, ocular

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