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.
tuberculoses
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pluralof tuberculosis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We have a pseudo-bacillosis of a strepto bacillar origin, not to mention the "professional" tuberculoses, such as that to which persons are exposed who have to breathe the fumes of charcoal.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Now it has at last been understood that there are slight tuberculoses, curable, but tremendously frequent.
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
