TUBERCULOSIS


Meaning of TUBERCULOSIS in English

noun

a communicable bacterial disease typically marked by wasting, fever, and formation of cheesy tubercles often in the lungs

Victorian heroines fading away with tuberculosis

Synonyms: consumption, phthisis, TB, white plague

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