Another word for tuberculosis?!
Question: What is another word for tuberculosis? Something that starts with clost.. I need to know.
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* TB (short for tuberculosis and also for Tubercle Bacillus)
* Consumption (TB seemed to consume people from within with its symptoms of bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting)
* Wasting disease
* White plague (TB sufferers appear markedly pale)
* Phthisis (Greek for consumption) and phthisis pulmonalis
* Scrofula (swollen neck glands)
* King's evil (so called because it was believed that a king's touch would heal scrofula)
* Pott's disease of the spine
* Miliary TB (x-ray lesions look like millet seeds)
* Tabes mesenterica (TB of the abdomen)
* Lupus vulgaris (the common wolf - TB of the skin)
* Prosector's wart, also a kind of TB of the skin, transmitted by contact with contaminated cadavers to anatomists, pathologists, veterinarians, surgeons, butchers, etc.
* Koch's Disease named after Robert Koch who discovered the tuberculosis bacilli.
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The bacterium
Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB),
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TB
The closest word I can think of is consumption.
I know they used to call it consumption.
TB
The old-fashioned word for tuberculosis is consumption.
Source(s):
All the old classics including A Tale of Two Cities.
KOCH'S disease.
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