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Synonyms for Tuberculosis
tʊˌbɜr kyəˈloʊ sɪs, tyʊ-tu·ber·cu·lo·sis
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Wiktionary
tuberculosisnoun
Synonyms:
phthisic, consumption, TBtuberculosisnoun
An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.
Synonyms:
TB, consumption, phthisic
Princeton's WordNet
tuberculosis, TB, T.B.noun
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:
atomic number 65, terbium, terabyte, tuberculosis, terabit, tebibyte
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List of paraphrases for "tuberculosis":
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
tuberculosis
Synonyms:
Consumption (in part), phthisis (in part)
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#3885 | consumption | |
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#13060 | tuberculosis | |
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#59942 | terabyte | |
#174172 | terbium | |
#194682 | terabit |
How to use Tuberculosis in a sentence?
For example, rifampicin and rifabutin which can be used to treat or prevent diseases including tuberculosis and meningitis.
British Prime Minister David Cameron:
In too many cases antibiotics have stopped working. That means people are dying of simple infections or conditions like TB (tuberculosis), tetanus, sepsis, infections that should not mean a death sentence, if we do nothing about this there will be a cumulative hit to the world economy of $100 trillion and it is potentially the end of modern medicine as we know it.
I became very sick. They had to carry me to the hospital. I had tuberculosis and I was very wasted.
This is a very serious illness, but it's difficult to transmit, you have to have prolonged close contact with someone with active tuberculosis to get it.
I have been trying to get the President to pay attention to illegals in our country ... because there is a spike in hepatitis C, tuberculosis, HIV, and it is going on deaf ears.
Translations for Tuberculosis
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- مر, سلArabic
- туберкулозаBulgarian
- tuberculosiCatalan, Valencian
- tuberkulózaCzech
- twbercwlosisWelsh
- tuberkuloseDanish
- TuberkuloseGerman
- φυματίωσηGreek
- tuberkulozoEsperanto
- tuberculosisSpanish
- سلPersian
- tuberkuloosiFinnish
- tuberklar, tuberklasjúka, bróstsjúkaFaroese
- tuberculoseFrench
- caitheamhScottish Gaelic
- tuberculoseGalician
- שחפתHebrew
- यक्ष्माHindi
- tuberkulózisHungarian
- թոքախտ, պալարախտ, տուբերկուլյոզArmenian
- berklarIcelandic
- tubercolosiItalian
- 結核Japanese
- 결핵Korean
- pla gwynnCornish
- туберкулозаMacedonian
- tuberkulosis, batuk keringMalay
- tuberculoseDutch
- jéíʼádįįhNavajo, Navaho
- tuberculòsiOccitan
- gruźlica, suchoty, tuberkulozaPolish
- tuberculosePortuguese
- tuberculozăRomanian
- чахотка, туберкулёзRussian
- यक्ष्मा, क्षयरोगSanskrit
- сушица, tuberkuloza, туберкулоза, sušica, grudobolja, jektika, грудобољаSerbo-Croatian
- tuberkulózaSlovak
- tuberkuloza, jetikaSlovene
- tuberkulosSwedish
- verem, tüberkülozTurkish
- يكشماUrdu
- bệnh laoVietnamese
- ftisidVolapük
- 肺结核Chinese
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