- an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- this disease when affecting the lungs; pulmonary phthisis; consumption.
- any disease caused by a mycobacterium.
- a communicable disease caused by infection with the tubercle bacillus, most frequently affecting the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis)
