tu|ber|cu|lo|sis

tu|ber|cu|lo|sis
tu|ber|cu|lo|sis «too BUR kyuh LOH sihs, tyoo-», noun.
a disease that can affect any organ or part of the body, but most often the lungs, characterized by an inflammation or the formation of tubercles on the tissues, and caused by the tubercle bacillus. Tuberculosis of the lungs was formerly called consumption. Abbr: TB (no periods).
[< New Latin tuberculosis < Latin tūberculum (see etym. under tubercle (Cf.tubercle)) + New Latin -osis -osis]

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