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.
实用例句
1. They suffered from tuberculosis, then still romantically called consumption.
他们得的是肺结核，但那时仍然满怀乐观地称之为痨病。来自柯林斯例句
2. One night he was called to see a woman with tuberculosis.
一天夜里，有人打来电话，请他去给一位患肺结核的妇女看病。来自柯林斯例句
3. People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.
人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核.来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Tuberculosis is a curable disease.
肺结核是一种可治愈的病.来自《简明英汉词典》
5. Tuberculosis ( TB ) is a chronic respiratory infectious disease caused by the pathogen Afycobacterium tuberculosis ( MTB ).
