Word

tuberculosis, n.
(tuberculoses)
freq. cnt. 4

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)
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4

T.B. TB tuberculosis

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

tubercular tubercular tubercular

semantic pointers

hypernym

infectious disease

hyponym

Pott's disease miliary tuberculosis pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague king's evil, scrofula, struma lupus vulgaris