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tuberculosis
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[ noun ] (medicine) 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)
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)In such diseases as cancer , tuberculosis , and heart_disease , early diagnosis and treatment are so vital that the waste_of_time by the patient with Doctor_Fraud 's cure-all gadget can prove fatal . Doris_Hull , suffering from tuberculosis , was taken by her husband to see Otis_G._Carroll , a sanipractor - a licensed drugless healer - in Spokane . Inevitably , Mrs._Hull died of starvation and tuberculosis , weighing 60 pounds . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Mrs._Trempler was tuberculosis , Mrs._Surcliffe was Mothers ' March_of_Dimes , Mrs._Craven was cancer , and Mrs._Gilkson did the kidney . |
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