TB
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3.2
- noun
- /tiː biː/
- Specialized
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tuberculosis
- The doctor explained that TB can be treated effectively with a long course of antibiotics.
- TB patients
- TB cases
- TB (tuberculosis)
Rachel, what part of the body does TB affect?
- Rachel, what part of the body does TB affect?
- What was worse was some people thought it wasn't even TB, but a bacterial genital disease.
- And while Misha was there not quite dealing with his TB, he wrote to a close family friend and said, it's it's really interesting.
- You might have thought that TB had been eradicated in the UK alongside pea soup fogs and top hats.
- I am legitimately tears streaming down my face like pouring my like heart out for this man knowing like my man is going to die from this TB.
- In our time of fighting extreme poverty and major initiatives were undertaken, for example, establishing the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria.
- So what about what about TB and, and what can we say about it?
- Patients get diagnosed with TB before they die.
- So again, remember HIV kills much, much less than for instance, TB.
- Well, infectious diseases like, you know, malaria, right, or you know, measles or TB, right?
- Malaria, TB, you know, people like Doctor Fauci and I, you know, they don't know what to discuss with us.
Examples
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There were 9,042 new cases of TB in the UK in 2011, a 5% increase on 2010.
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So in the United States, more than half of all patients with TB are people who were born outside this country.
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No patients with known contact with a person with active TB were included in the analysis.
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Children in the country die of TB.
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The other half have got TB.
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Patients get diagnosed with TB before they die.
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Naturally, we're seeing a rise in sickness, particularly TB and the measles.
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Although this TB screening process detected active TB cases, studies have cited gaps in the process.
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Unfortunately, the miracles of modern medicine can only go so far in combating an illness like TB.
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The hospital lacked an isolation ward, and infectious TB cases were treated in open-air general wards.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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3.7
A serious disease that spreads between people and usually affects the lungs, causing fever and coughing
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9.9
A lung disease that makes the body thin and often causes death
A serious disease you can catch that usually affects the lungs
Surface Forms
Etymology
TB is short for tuberculosis, which comes from the Latin tuberculum, meaning 'small lump'. Doctors named the illness for the small lumps or tubercles that form in the lungs, so TB refers to that infectious lung disease.