tuberculosis

名词 tuberculosis:

1. 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)
   同义词：TB, T.B.

1. As late as the 1950s tuberculosis was still a threat.
   直到二十世纪五十年代，结核病仍然使人不寒而栗。
2. The formation of cavities in a body tissue or an organ, especially those formed in the lung as a result of tuberculosis.
   成洞身体组织或器官内空洞的形成，尤指那种因肺结核而在肺中形成的空洞
3. In cases of tuberculosis blood is expectorated.
   肺结核病有咯血症状。