What is another word for tuberculosis? Something that starts with clost.... I need to know. Is there a special medical word that begins with clost or something?
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TB
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* TB (short for tuberculosis and also for Tubercle Bacillus) * Consumption (TB seemed to consume people from within with its symptoms of bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting) * Wasting disease * White plague (TB sufferers appear markedly pale) * Phthisis (Greek for consumption) and phthisis pulmonalis * Scrofula (swollen neck glands) * King's evil (so called because it was believed that a king's touch would heal scrofula) * Pott's disease of the spine * Miliary TB (x-ray lesions look like millet seeds) * Tabes mesenterica (TB of the abdomen) * Lupus vulgaris (the common wolf - TB of the skin) * Prosector's wart, also a kind of TB of the skin, transmitted by contact with contaminated cadavers to anatomists, pathologists, veterinarians, surgeons, butchers, etc. * Koch's Disease named after Robert Koch who discovered the tuberculosis bacilli. [edit] The bacterium Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Enlarge Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB),
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The closest word I can think of is consumption.
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I know they used to call it consumption.
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TB
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The old-fashioned word for tuberculosis is consumption.
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KOCH'S disease
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