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TUBERCULOSIS
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I. (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)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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:
Terminology relevant to the prioritization of tuberculosis contacts.
(CDISC SDTM Priority of Tuberculosis Contact Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)
Young people, between the ages of 10 and 19, were found to have 20 times the risk of developing tuberculosis through close exposure to an infected loved one.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
A diet plan that has been claimed to be a treatment for cancer, migraine, tuberculosis, and other diseases.
(Gerson therapy, NCI Dictionary)
It has been used to treat mycobacterial infections, including tuberculosis and leprosy.
(Glucosulfone Free Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
An individual that has tested positive for pulmonary, laryngeal, or pleural tuberculosis and may or may not present with cavitary disease.
(High-priority Tuberculosis Subject, NCI Thesaurus)
A non taxonomic grouping of bacteria assigned to and including related species from the Mycobacterium genus not including those bacteria in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
(Mycobacterium fortuitum Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
(Mycobacterium tuberculosis, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Cloxyquin is reported to have activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, including strains that show resistance to common first-line antibacterial agents.
(Cloxyquin, NCI Thesaurus)
It causes infection mainly in immunocompromised patients and is often resistant to most conventional anti-tuberculosis medications including rifabutin.
(Mycobacterium simiae, NCI Thesaurus)
