tuberculosis
英 [tjʊ,bɜːkjʊ'ləʊsɪs]
美 [tʊ'bɝkjə'losɪs]
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- tuberculosis
- tuberculosis: see truffle
- tuberculosis (n.)
- 1860, "disease characterized by tubercules," a medical Latin hybrid, from Latin tuberculum "small swelling, pimple," diminutive of tuber "lump" (see tuber) + -osis, a suffix of Greek origin. So called in reference to the tubercules which form in the lungs. Originally in reference to any disease characterized by tubercules; since the discovery in 1882 of the tubercule bacillus by German bacteriologist Robert Koch (1843-1910) restricted to disease caused by this. Abbreviation T.B. attested from 1912.
- 1. They suffered from tuberculosis, then still romantically called consumption.
- 他们得的是肺结核，但那时仍然满怀乐观地称之为痨病。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. One night he was called to see a woman with tuberculosis.
- 一天夜里，有人打来电话，请他去给一位患肺结核的妇女看病。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.
- 人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Tuberculosis is a curable disease.
- 肺结核是一种可治愈的病.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Tuberculosis ( TB ) is a chronic respiratory infectious disease caused by the pathogen Afycobacterium tuberculosis ( MTB ).
- 结核病 ( tuberculosis,TB ) 是由结核分枝杆菌 ( MTB ) 引起的以呼吸道传播为主的慢性传染病.
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