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单词 tuberculosis
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
tu•ber•cu•lo•sis /tʊˌbɜrkyəˈloʊsɪs, tyʊ-/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Pathologyan infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, producing swelling.
Abbr.: TB tu•ber•cu•lar/tʊˈbɜrkyəlɚ/USA pronunciation  tu•ber•cu•lous, adj. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
tu•ber•cu•lo•sis  (tŏŏ bûr′kyə lō′sis, tyŏŏ-),USA pronunciation n. [Pathol.]
  1. Pathologyan infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, esp. the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
  2. Pathologythis disease when affecting the lungs;
    pulmonary phthisis;
    consumption.
  3. Pathologyany disease caused by a mycobacterium. Also called TB (for defs. 1, 2).
  • Neo-Latin tūberculōsis; see tubercle, -osis
  • 1855–60

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
tuberculosis /tjʊˌbɜːkjʊˈləʊsɪs/ n
  1. a communicable disease caused by infection with the tubercle bacillus, most frequently affecting the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis)
Etymology: 19th Century: from New Latin; see tubercle, -osis
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