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miliary tuberculosis

noun

Pathology.
  1. tuberculosis in which the bacilli are spread by the blood from one point of infection, producing small tubercles in other parts of the body.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of miliary tuberculosis1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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The lungs appeared to be full of small spots: miliary tuberculosis, an uncommon and dangerous form of the disease.

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Wolfe, who died of miliary tuberculosis at the age of 37, was a North Carolina native who drew heavily on his own life to write his poetic prose.

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The chest X-ray above shows miliary tuberculosis - a form of TB where the disease has spread around the body in a manner that is said to look like a scattering of millet seeds.

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Acute miliary tuberculosis of the lungs is more often met with as a sequela than as a complication.

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An autopsy discovered that the cause of death was miliary tuberculosis, a rare form of the disease in which the TB bacilli spread through the bloodstream and infect multiple organs.

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