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  Tb

  tubercle bacillus.
• TB
  TB

  tubercle bacillus.
• t.b.
  t.b.

  abbreviation

  trial balance.
• tb
  tb

  abbreviation

  trial balance

Tb

¹ American  

1. tubercle bacillus.

2. tuberculosis.

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Tb ² American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. terbium.

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TB ³ American  

Or T.B.

1. tubercle bacillus.

2. tuberculosis.

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TB ⁴ American  

Symbol, Computers.

1. terabyte.

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t.b. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. trial balance.

2. tubercle bacillus.

3. tuberculosis.

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tb ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. trial balance

2. Also: TB.  tuberculosis

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Tb ² British  

symbol

1. terbium

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TB ³ British  

abbreviation

1. torpedo boat

2. Also: tb.  tuberculosis

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TB Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of terabyte

2. Abbreviation of tuberculosis

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Example Sentences

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Tb TB t.b. tb

While Fletcher and his students are foraying into other applications of the mobile microscope, such as examining your skin or testing for malaria and Tb, MIT’s Ramesh Raskar has become known as the ‘Eye Guy.’

From Forbes ● Jul. 1, 2014

Tb has a harmony of the Gospels at the foot of the page.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

During night, Tb would oscillate between 38°C and about 39°C, such that two peak values occurred.

From Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae by Mahlke-Johnson, Kathleen P.

All animals listed have about the same Tlc and Tb, so the temperature differential producing this response is about the same for each species.

From Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae by Mahlke-Johnson, Kathleen P.

In that instance, its Tb rose to 40.0°C during the first 30 minutes and was maintained at that level for three hours with no apparent distress.

From Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae by Mahlke-Johnson, Kathleen P.

“Ebola is an urgent priority, but so is malaria, so is TB and so is HIV/AIDS.”

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

A government hospital insisted it was tuberculosis, although silicosis can also make people more susceptible to TB.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

Asked whether Wales could see badger culling in future in response to bovine TB he said he agreed with Wales' TB Programme Board that the disease should be addressed "in wildlife" as well as livestock.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

In an email sent on 7 May 2002 to Jonathan Powell, Lord Mandelson wrote: "I mentioned to TB that Jeffrey is in London next week and he said he would like to meet him."

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

Working for the Soros Foundation, a privately funded philanthropy organization, Goldfarb had been focusing on a very specific health crisis—a hundred thousand inmates in Russian prisons with active TB.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b.

From Time Magazine Archive

So reported Statistician Godias J. Drolet, assistant director of the New York Tuberculosis & Health Association, who last week published t.b. reports from 46 large cities all over the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1940, 61,000 people in the U.S. died of t.b.

From Time Magazine Archive

They reminded the public that t.b., although it has been pushed back from first to eighth place among U.S. killers, still kills more people between 18 and 40 than any other disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chest's me trouble—touch of t.b. the Doc says.

From The Tale of a Trooper by Mackenzie, Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes)

Said Webb expansively: "We view this as a program which could mean $375 tb $500 million in development for the Houston area."

From Time Magazine Archive

Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York.

From Time Magazine Archive