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"Tuberculosis" Definition

noun

An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the lungs and other tissues of the body, often developing long after the initial infection.
Tuberculosis of the lungs, characterized by the coughing up of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain.
A highly variable communicable disease of humans and some other vertebrates that is caused by the bacillus and rarely in the United States by a related mycobacterium (), that affects especially the lungs but may spread to other areas (as the kidney or spinal column), and that is characterized by fever, cough, difficulty in breathing, formation of , caseation, pleural effusions, and fibrosis.

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