t.b.

noun

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)

   Synonyms

   • tuberculosis, TB, T

   Less specific

   • infectious disease

   More specific

   • Pott's disease, miliary tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague, scrofula, struma, king's evil, lupus vulgaris