tuberculosis

Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Latin tuberculum (diminutive of tuber, lump) + -osis (diseased condition).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

tuberculosis (plural tuberculoses)

1. (pathology) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.

Synonyms

• phthisic
• consumption
• TB (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• miliary tuberculosis
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• MDR-TB
• XDR-TB

Related terms

• Mtb

Translations

infectious disease

Arabic: سل (ar) (sull) m. Armenian: թոքախտ (hy) (t’ok’axt), տուբերկուլյոզ (hy) (tuberkulyoz), պալարախտ (hy) (palaraxt) Bosnian: tuberkuloza (bs) f., grudobolja (bs) f. Bulgarian: туберкулоза (bg) (tuberkulóza) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 結核 (cmn), 结核 (cmn) (jiéhé) Czech: tuberkulóza (cs) f. Danish: tuberkulose (da) c. Dutch: tuberculose (nl) Esperanto: tuberkulozo (eo) Faroese: tuberklar (fo) m. pl., tuberklasjúka (fo) f., bróstsjúka (fo) f. Finnish: tuberkuloosi (fi) French: tuberculose (fr) f. Galician: tuberculose (gl) f. German: Tuberkulose (de) f. Greek: φυματίωση (el) (fimatíosi) f. Hebrew: שחפת (he) (shakhéfet) f. Hungarian: tuberkulózis (hu) Icelandic: berklar (is) m. pl.

Italian: tubercolosi (it) f. Japanese: 結核 (ja) (けっかく, kekkaku) Korean: 결핵 (ko) (gyeolhaeg) Macedonian: туберкулоза (mk) f. Navajo: jéíʼádįįh Persian: سل (fa) (sell) Polish: gruźlica (pl) f. Russian: туберкулёз (ru) (tuberkuljóz) m., чахотка (ru) (čaxótka) f. (dated) Scottish Gaelic: a' chaitheamh (gd) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: туберкулоза (sr) f., грудобоља (sr) f., сушица f. Roman: tuberkuloza (sr) f., grudobolja (sr) f., sušica f., jektika f. Slovak: tuberkulóza (sk) f. Slovene: jetika (sl) f., tuberkuloza (sl) f. Spanish: tuberculosis (es) Swedish: tuberculos (sv) Turkish: tüberküloz (tr), verem (tr) Vietnamese: bệnh lao (vi) Volapük: ftisid (vo)