Any disease in which the bodily strength gradually fails; esp. tubercular phthisis, consumption.

Medicine and Pathology. As a mass noun: disease characterized by the presence of tubercles, spec. tuberculosis; (also) †the material contained…

Medicine. The formation or presence of tubercles (tubercle, n. 2a), esp. in the disease tuberculosis; the condition of having tubercles. Cf. tuberc…

Originally: the formation or development of tubercles, spec. those of tuberculosis. In later use also: infection with tubercle bacilli; resistance…

= tuberculization, n.

Disease characterized by the formation of tubercles; spec. that caused in humans by infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the…

tuberculous disease affecting the testicle or closely associated structures (epididymis, spermatic cord, etc.).

= white death n.

Tuberculosis, spec. in an active granulomatous stage. Obsolete. rare.

tuberculosis or mycobacteriosis of the skin; a type or instance of this; cf. tuberculid, n.

(more fully great white scourge) = white death n.

= tubercle, n. (in various senses).

tuberculosis, esp. when epidemic and causing many deaths.

tuberculosis; T.B.-tested adj., (of an animal) tested to establish the absence of tuberculosis; also (U.S. slang), a confidence trickster (see quot…