tuberculin

American  

[too-bur-kyuh-lin, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə lɪn, tjʊ- /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.

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tuberculin British  

/ tjʊˈbɜːkjʊlɪn /

noun

1. a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of attenuated tubercle bacillus and used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis

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Etymology

Origin of tuberculin

1890–95; < Latin tūbercul ( um ) tubercle + -in ²

Example Sentences

Ms Macdonald has questioned the validity of the tests and says that they are returning false positives because he had been "primed" before them by being injected with bovine tuberculin.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2021

MacDonald believes the tests results returned a false positive because Geronimo had been given the tuberculin vaccine before testing with led to antibodies in his system.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2021

A positive tuberculin test means that the patient has been exposed to the bacteria and exhibits a cellular immune response to it.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Before antibiotics, to be tuberculin meant to be weakly resigned to one’s fate—a relationship so strong that Franz Kafka blamed his tuberculosis on his own “moral bankruptcy.”

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2013

Occurrence, then, of a subcutaneous tuberculin reaction does not indicate necessarily sanatorium or institutional treatment; neither does it absolutely indicate the necessity of tuberculin treatment.

From Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Various