miliary tuberculosis

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. tuberculosis in which the bacilli are spread by the blood from one point of infection, producing small tubercles in other parts of the body.

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Etymology

Origin of miliary tuberculosis

First recorded in 1895–1900

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miliary tuberculosis

Wolfe, who died of miliary tuberculosis at the age of 37, was a North Carolina native who drew heavily on his own life to write his poetic prose.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2016

Untreated, both meningeal and miliary tuberculosis commonly kill within two or three months, and about one-third of the victims get only temporary help from streptomycin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another shipment of Nydrazid was sent to Tuba City, where Dr. Charles Clark found, among the unhappy Navajos, all too many cases of both meningeal and miliary tuberculosis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Binswanger states that tuberculosis, aside from miliary tuberculosis or meningitis, produces no mental disorder except phenomena of the amentia of exhaustion.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

In rare cases distribution by the blood is the principal method of extension, and immense numbers of small foci of disease are produced, the form of disease being known as acute miliary tuberculosis.

From Disease and Its Causes by William Thomas Councilman