Usually means: Bacterial infection, primarily affects lungs.
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  1. tuberculosis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tuberculosis: Merriam-Webster
  3. tuberculosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tuberculosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tuberculosis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tuberculosis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tuberculosis, tuberculosis: Wordnik
  8. tuberculosis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tuberculosis: Wiktionary
  10. tuberculosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tuberculosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tuberculosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tuberculosis: Dictionary.com
  14. tuberculosis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tuberculosis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tuberculosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tuberculosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tuberculosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tuberculosis: Rhymezone
  20. Tuberculosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tuberculosis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tuberculosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tuberculosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tuberculosis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tuberculosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. tuberculosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tuberculosis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Tuberculosis: UK Medical Acronyms
  7. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  8. Tuberculosis: Merck Manuals
  9. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  12. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  13. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  14. tuberculosis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  15. tuberculosis: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  16. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  17. tuberculosis: Medical dictionary
  18. Tuberculosis: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tuberculosis: Evolution Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tuberculosis: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tuberculoses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 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.

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