1860, "disease characterized by tubercules," a medical Latin hybrid, from Latin tuberculum "small swelling, pimple," diminutive of tuber "lump" (see tuber) + -osis, a suffix of Greek origin. So called in reference to the tubercules which form in the lungs. Originally in reference to any disease characterized by tubercules; since the discovery in 1882 of the tubercule bacillus by German bacteriologist Robert Koch (1843-1910) restricted to disease caused by this. Abbreviation T.B. attested from 1912.
雙語例句
1. They suffered from tuberculosis, then still romantically called consumption.
他們得的是肺結(jié)核，但那時仍然滿懷樂觀地稱之為癆病。
來自柯林斯例句
2. One night he was called to see a woman with tuberculosis.
一天夜里，有人打來電話，請他去給一位患肺結(jié)核的婦女看病。
來自柯林斯例句
3. People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.
人們常去溫泉療養(yǎng)勝地治療肺結(jié)核.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Tuberculosis is a curable disease.
肺結(jié)核是一種可治愈的病.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Tuberculosis ( TB ) is a chronic respiratory infectious disease caused by the pathogen Afycobacterium tuberculosis ( MTB ).