tuberculosis
English
Etymology
To international scientific vocabulary from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tuberculum (diminutive of tuber (“lump”)) + -osis (“diseased condition”); named for the encapsulated colonies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within the lungs in pulmonary tuberculosis, which can look like small tubers (tubercles) on gross pathology. The disease has existed throughout human experience and had other names for millennia before scientific medicine renamed it with a New Latin term in the mid-19th century (1840s); in English it was called consumption because of the wasting away that consumed health and seemed even to consume flesh in some cases (for example, causing fistulas and tissue breakdown).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Noun
tuberculosis (countable and uncountable, plural tuberculoses)
- (pathology) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 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. [from 1839]
Synonyms
- phthisic
- consumption
- TB (abbreviation)
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Asturian
Noun
tuberculosis f (uncountable)
- (pathology) tuberculosis (infectious disease)
Interlingua
Noun
tuberculosis (uncountable)
- Alternative form of tuberculose.
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) tūberculōsīs
- dative masculine plural of tūberculōsus
- dative feminine plural of tūberculōsus
- dative neuter plural of tūberculōsus
- ablative masculine plural of tūberculōsus
- ablative neuter plural of tūberculōsus
- ablative feminine plural of tūberculōsus
Spanish
Etymology
From Scientific Latin tuberculosis, from tubercŭlum (“tiny tumor”) and + -osis.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
tuberculosis f (plural tuberculosis)
References
- ^ “tuberculosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- English terms derived from New Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/osis
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- es:Diseases