Tuberculosis Synonyms

to͝o-bûrkyə-lōsĭs, tyo͝o-
An infectious disease producing lesions especially of the lungs
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. consumption
  2. phthisis
  3. tb
  4. lung-disease
  5. pulmonary phthisis
  6. phthisic
  7. T.B.
  8. lung trouble
  9. white plague
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. tubercular
  2. tuberculous

Words Related to Tuberculosis

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Tuberculosis Sentence Examples

  • In 1921, a tuberculosis vaccine was developed in France.

  • The death-rate from tuberculosis, however, is high, and apparently shows no abatement.

  • Some of them are employed on a state farm at Lassiter, Goochland county, on which there is a tuberculosis hospital, and some of them on the public roads; in 1909 there were 350 men at the state farm, 14 road camps with about 630 men, and 1273 men and 96 women in the penitentiary at Richmond.

  • At a very early period it was held by Virchow that the large cheesy masses found in tuberculosis of the lung are to be regarded as pneumonic infiltrations of the air-vesicles.

  • It is the seat of one of the state normal schools (1894), of St Joseph's Academy (Polish), and of the Stevens Point Commercial College, and has a Carnegie library (1904), the Portage county court-house, a city hospital, and a tuberculosis sanatorium.

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