TB
Of infectious disease. May also be referred to as T.B. and 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).
This concept's ID is @1~71233
Contains
- consumption
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.
- Pott's disease
TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spin...
- miliary tuberculosis
Acute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one...
- scrofula
A form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands.
- lupus vulgaris
Tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep...