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pulmonary tuberculosis

DEFINITIONS OF: pulmonary tuberculosis

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n involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Synonyms:
consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
Type of:
T.B., TB, tuberculosis
infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
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