Synonym: T.B., TB. Similar words: tuber, protuberance, herculean, intercultural, counterculture, musculoskeletal system, tube, test tube. Meaning: n. 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).
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61, Alcohol and tobacco accelerate epidemics, such as tuberculosis and drug abuse.
62, If the animal is free of tuberculosis, it can be released unharmed.
63, Furthermore, our data suggest that we can not be complacent about the risks of tuberculosis in the white population.
64, This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite, which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup.
65, Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes.
66, Nathan was seventeen and seriously ill with tuberculosis when he was taken in to Highgate Hospital in January 1942.
67, There was a resurgence of tuberculosis at the start of the decade.
68, All children brought to the clinic were automatically vaccinated against tuberculosis.
69, Soon, however, he developed pulmonary tuberculosis and was invalided out.
70, Our tuberculosis patients needed nourishment far more than we did.
71, This nineteen-year-old orphan suffered from spinal tuberculosis, which kept her from becoming a Passionist nun.
72, Doctors recommend that all children be immunized against polio and tuberculosis.
73, Twenty people were infected with tuberculosis by one sick employee.
74, First, our population was limited to patients with sputum-smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis.
75, Bubonic plague, typhoid, polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis and gonorrhea still afflict much of the world.
76, One patient had recently finished a course of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis.
77, Now she's unemployed and her husband has tuberculosis and they live on supplementary benefit with their two children.
78, More distant prospects include improved vaccines for tuberculosis and childhood diseases, and possibly an AIDS vaccine[sentence dictionary], Young said.
79, Whatever the recorded cause of death-leishmaniasis, tuberculosis, pneumonia-the real cause is poverty.
80, New York in the 1980s suffered an outbreak of tuberculosis, concentrated among the poor.
81, Many adults have developed an immunity to tuberculosis in this manner.
82, In 44 cases in this study tuberculosis was detected by a routine chest x ray examination.
83, These conditions include pulmonary tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, streptococcal septicaemia and various other diseases.
84, The reduction of fever is an early sign of improvement in tuberculosis.
85, In one patient with diarrhoea M tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus was found.
86, The diseases of the time affected almost every family: tuberculosis, rickets, pneumonia.
87, He was an in-patient for 40 days, receiving drugs for tuberculosis and syphilis.
88, Tuberculosis is a common threat when people live in crowded conditions.
89, The perceived social stigma of a tuberculosis diagnosis may be so severe as to cause people to avoid testing or treatment.
90, It was only then that Jean-Pierre discovered he had contracted tuberculosis in jail, and had never recovered.
More similar words: tuber, protuberance, herculean, intercultural, counterculture, musculoskeletal system, tube, test tube, inner tube, test-tube baby, puberty, aubergine, exuberant, cellulose, exuberance, culottes, buttercup, power cut, undercut, losing, mercurial, percussion, gubernatorial, circular, miraculous, meticulous, ridiculous, closing, circulate, repercussion.