pulmonary tuberculosis
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈpʌlməˌnɛri tjuːˌbɜːrkjʊˈloʊsɪs/
- Specialized
:
tuberculosis pulmonar
- Just after the youngest was born, Bina tested positive for pulmonary tuberculosis.
- pulmonary tuberculosis patients
- positive for pulmonary tuberculosis
Examples
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The patient manifested no evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Academic text (2002) -
In such a case, the transmission model used here would underestimate the benefits of treating infectious pulmonary tuberculosis.
Academic text (1992) -
The value of programs to control pulmonary tuberculosis in developing countries remains the subject of debate.
Academic text (1992) -
Four of them had Aspergillosis and another had pulmonary tuberculosis.
Academic text (2007) -
Three patients (6.1%) had concurrent pulmonary tuberculosis (Table I).
Academic text (2007) -
There is a concern that treating smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients who are also HIV-seropositive is not cost-effective.
Academic text (1992) -
Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as multiple nodular opacities is very infrequent.
Academic text (2007) -
In West Africa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains co-circulate with M. africanum, and both pathogens cause pulmonary tuberculosis in humans.
Academic text (2013) -
The usual roentgenographic manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis are parenchymal infiltrations in the apical and posterior segments of upper lobe 1.
Academic text (2007) -
Just after the youngest was born, Bina tested positive for pulmonary tuberculosis.
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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3.2
A serious disease that usually affects the lungs but can also affect other body parts
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9.9
A lung disease that slowly makes the body thin and weak
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7.3
A disease that makes a person lose weight and become weak, often affecting the lungs
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9.9
A lung disease that makes the body thin and often causes death
A lung disease that slowly makes the body thin and weak
A serious disease you can catch that usually affects the lungs
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'pulmonary' means related to the lungs and 'tuberculosis' is an infectious disease, so the combined meaning is simply tuberculosis affecting the lungs. This medical noun-adjective combination follows regular English and cross-linguistic patterns (e.g. Spanish 'tuberculosis pulmonar'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The term pulmonary tuberculosis uses two parts that describe the illness: pulmonary means 'of the lungs' and tuberculosis comes from an old word for a small lump called a 'tubercle' that doctors saw in sick lungs. So the name literally says a 'lung' disease with small lumps, which helps you remember it is a serious infection of the lungs.