tuberculosis
noun
an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
antituberculosis
-
a word derived from
tuberculosis.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill that combines the power of three antituberculosis medications.
From Time Magazine Archive
The antibiotic rifampin, a leading antituberculosis drug, has proved effective, healing leprous skin lesions four times as fast as dapsone.
From Time Magazine Archive
