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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Resembling tuberculosis, as in being characterized by tubercular lesions.
  • adjective Resembling a tubercule.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, having the appearance or shape of a tubercle; tuberculiform.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Resembling a tubercle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tubercule
  • adjective Of or pertaining to tuberculosis

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resembling tuberculosis

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Examples

  • Healthy people only get a milder 'tuberculoid' kind of leprosy.

    Mycobacterium leprae Emma Lurie 2007

  • Healthy people only get a milder 'tuberculoid' kind of leprosy.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Emma Lurie 2007

  • Depending on where it falls along the line between the two extremes, borderline leprosy is divided into: borderline tuberculoid (BT), borderline (BB), and borderline lepromatous (BL).

    1) Head Control and Use of Senses 1999

  • It greatly reduces the time needed for treatment, especially for tuberculoid leprosy.

    1) Head Control and Use of Senses 1999

  • ‘BORDERLINE’ LEPROSY combines features of both tuberculoid and lepromatous leprosy.

    1) Head Control and Use of Senses 1999

  • For tuberculoid leprosy take both of these for at least 6 months:

    Chapter 31 1993

  • Patients with tuberculoid leprosy are less infectious but are more likely to suffer paralysis of peripheral nerves.

    Chapter 9 1993

  • - The action on the tuberculoid type is quite slow, about 2 to 6 weeks.

    Chapter 4 1993

  • If there are light-colored skin patches with loss of sensation but no lumps or thickened skin, then the person probably has tuberculoid leprosy and only 2 medicines are required.

    Chapter 31 1993

  • For paucibacillary leprosy (borderline-tuberculoid, tuberculoid and indeterminate), it uses two-drug regimen.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

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