/sooh'doh too berr'kyeuh loh"sis, -tyoo-/ , n. Pathol.
1. an acute, sometimes fatal disease of rodents, birds, and other animals, including humans, caused by the bacterium Yersinia ( Pasteurella ) pseudotuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules resembling those that result from tuberculosis.
2. any disease resembling tuberculosis but caused by an organism other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
[ 1895-1900; PSEUDO- + TUBERCULOSIS; def. 1 after the specific epithet of the bacterium causing the disease ]