tuberculosis

== English == === Etymology === To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin tūberculōsis, from Latin tūberculum (diminutive of tūber (“lump”)) +‎ Latin -ōsis (“diseased condition”); by surface analysis, tubercul(um) +‎ -osis; named for the encapsulated colonies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within the lungs in pulmonary tuberculosis, which can look like small tubers (tubercles) on gross pathology. The disease has existed throughout human experience and had other names for millennia before scientific medicine renamed it with a New Latin term in the mid-19th century (1840s); in English it was called consumption because of the wasting away that consumed health and seemed even to consume flesh in some cases (for example, causing fistulas and tissue breakdown). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /tʃuːˌbɜː(ɹ)kjʊˈləʊsɪs/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tjuːˌbɜː(ɹ)kjʊˈləʊsɪs/ (General American) IPA(key): /tuˌbɚkjʊˈloʊsɪs/, /tʊ-/ Rhymes: -əʊsɪs === Noun === tuberculosis (countable and uncountable, plural tuberculoses) (pathology) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria. [from 1839] ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Tok Pisin: tubakulosis ==== Translations ==== === See also === Burkholderia gladioli == Asturian == === Noun === tuberculosis f (uncountable) (pathology) tuberculosis (infectious disease) == Interlingua == === Noun === tuberculosis (uncountable) alternative form of tuberculose == Latin == === Etymology 1 === tūberculum +‎ -ōsis ==== Noun ==== tūberculōsis f (genitive tūberculōsis or tūberculōseōs or tūberculōsios); third declension (New Latin, pathology) tuberculosis ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem). 1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== tūberculōsīs dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of tūberculōsus == Spanish == === Etymology === From Scientific Latin tuberculosis, from tubercŭlum (“tiny tumor”) and +‎ -osis. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tubeɾkuˈlosis/ [t̪u.β̞eɾ.kuˈlo.sis] Rhymes: -osis Syllabification: tu‧ber‧cu‧lo‧sis === Noun === tuberculosis f (plural tuberculosis) tuberculosis Synonym: tisis (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “tuberculosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025