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Tubercle bacillus   Listen
Tubercle bacillus

noun
1.
Cause of tuberculosis.  Synonym: Mycobacterium tuberculosis.






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"Tubercle bacillus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lungs—How to Keep it from Spreading. Tuberculosis of the lungs is the most dangerous of all forms, both because the lungs appear to have less power of resistance against the tubercle bacillus, and also because from the lung, the bacilli can readily be coughed up and blown into the air again, or spit onto the floor, to be breathed into the lungs of other people, and thus give them the disease. Two-thirds of all who die of tuberculosis die of the pulmonary, or lung, form of the ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson



Words linked to "Tubercle bacillus" :   mycobacterium, mycobacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis



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