secondary tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis occurring in adults and characterized by lesions near the apex of an upper lobe of the lung that may cavitate or heal with scarring; it may result from reinfection with the tubercle bacillus or from reactivation of a dormant endogenous infection.

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Over the past three years, Michigan has had an average price close to $200 on the secondary market.
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He fooled around a lot, and was asked to leave his secondary school.
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More importantly, Medicaid served as a secondary insurance to his primary insurance.
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Schmidt had arrived in California after his family had been wiped out by tuberculosis in his home state of Rhode Island.
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The plot of the film runs secondary to the spectacle, and is denser than a TED conference.
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It is sometimes met with in the sputum of catarrhal pneumonia, bronchitis, and tuberculosis.
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It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.
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Blood-streaked sputum is strongly suggestive of tuberculosis, and is more common in the early stages than later.
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Its continued presence in pulmonary tuberculosis is, however, a grave prognostic sign, even when the physical signs are slight.
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Considerable hemorrhages from the bladder may occur in vesical calculus, tuberculosis, and newgrowths.
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