Synonyms for tuberculosis
tʊˌbɜr kyəˈloʊ sɪs, tyʊ-tu·ber·cu·lo·sis

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1. tuberculosisnoun

   Synonyms:
   phthisic, consumption, TB

2. tuberculosisnoun

   An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium 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.

   Synonyms:
   TB, consumption, phthisic

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1. tuberculosis, TB, T.B.noun

   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)

   Synonyms:
   atomic number 65, terbium, terabyte, terabit, tebibyte

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1. List of paraphrases for "tuberculosis":

   tb, anti-tuberculosis, tbc, t.b.

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tuberculosis

   Synonyms:
   Consumption (in part), phthisis (in part)

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1. Keertan Dheda:

   The absolute reduction in mortality was small at 4 percent, but with 300,000 patients with HIV dying from TB in Africa every year, implementing this low-cost, rapid, bedside test could potentially save thousands of lives annually, the reduction in mortality is likely to be because urine testing, in conjunction with routine testing, resulted in a greater proportion of patients starting tuberculosis treatment early.

2. Frederick Sarpong:

   They will come to the hospital ... coughing up blood, you might think it's tuberculosis, but actually this is mercury poisoning.

3. Republican Gov. Paul LePage:

   I have been trying to get the President to pay attention to illegals in our country ... because there is a spike in hepatitis C, tuberculosis, HIV, and it is going on deaf ears.

4. Juliet Nalumu:

   I became very sick. They had to carry me to the hospital. I had tuberculosis and I was very wasted.

5. British Prime Minister David Cameron:

   In too many cases antibiotics have stopped working. That means people are dying of simple infections or conditions like TB (tuberculosis), tetanus, sepsis, infections that should not mean a death sentence, if we do nothing about this there will be a cumulative hit to the world economy of $100 trillion and it is potentially the end of modern medicine as we know it.