Infection
Infection noun - (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease.
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Synonyms for Infection
Tuberculosis and infection are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Tuberculosis" with "Infection", this nouns are similar.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis noun - 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).
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Synonyms for Tuberculosis
Infection and tuberculosis are semantically related. You can use "Infection" instead a noun "Tuberculosis".
Nearby Words: tubercular, tuberculous
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- The initial experiments Josef Mengele performs on America and Canada (infection with tuberculosis and vivisection and injection of dye into the eyes respectively) don't kill them, but do leave them in immense pain.
Source: Immortality Hurts - Breaking the skin with a bite leads to infection ten to fifteen percent of the time, and hepatitis, herpes, syphilis, tuberculosis, and tetanus have all been documented as being transmissible through human bite injuries.
Source: Analysis / Man Bites Man -
They're intended to fight serious infections like pneumonia and tuberculosis, but some doctors will give them out to a patient if the person complains about a viral infection (cold or flu)... which is completely impervious to antibiotics.
Source: Godzilla Threshold
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