BCG

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

BCG (plural BCGs)

1. Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin, a vaccine for tuberculosis developed by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin
2. (US, military slang) Initialism of birth control glasses.
3. (astronomy) Initialism of brightest cluster galaxy.
4. (astronomy) Initialism of blue compact galaxy.

Synonyms

• (blue compact galaxy): BCD

Translations

Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡介苗 (zh) (kǎjièmiáo)

• Finnish: Calmette-rokote
• French: BCG (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Russian: БЦЖ (BCŽ)
• Spanish: BCG m

See also

BCG vaccine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CBG, CGB, GBC, GCB