tuberculosis
An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium,…An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 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.
» Tom died from tuberculosis.
Tom starb an Tuberkulose.
Том умер от туберкулёза.
Том помер від туберкульозу.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 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.
Tuberkulose
туберкулёзtuberkuljóz, чахо́ткаčaxótka
туберкульо́зtuberkulʹóz
- 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)
Examples
29 sentencesTom died from tuberculosis.
Том помер від туберкульозу.
ruТом умер от туберкулёза.
deTom starb an Tuberkulose.
Tom died in prison from tuberculosis.
ruТом умер в тюрьме от туберкулёза.
Most people who get infected with tuberculosis never get sick.
Tom died of tuberculosis.
ruТом умер от туберкулёза.
I have tuberculosis.
ruУ меня туберкулёз.
Translations
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Origin
To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin tūberculōsis, from Latin tūberculumTo international scientific vocabulary from New Latin tūberculōsis, from Latin tūberculum (diminutive of tūber (“lump”)) + Latin -ōsis (“diseased condition”); by surface analysis, tubercul(um) + -osis; named for the encapsulated colonies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within the lungs in pulmonary tuberculosis, which can look like small tubers (tubercles) on gross pathology. The disease has existed throughout human experience and had other names for millennia before scientific medicine renamed it with a New Latin term in the mid-19th century (1840s); in English it was called consumption because of the wasting away that consumed health and seemed even to consume flesh in some cases (for example, causing fistulas and tissue breakdown).
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Forms
plural: tuberculoses| Singular | tuberculosis |
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Synonyms
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