Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any tumor caused by the presence of the tubercle bacillus, or an abscess of tuberculous origin.
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- noun medicine A
lesion associated withtuberculosis .
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Examples
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Tumours growing _in the substance of the cord_ are nearly as common as extra-medullary growths, and as the growth is usually sarcoma, glioma, tuberculoma, or gumma, and infiltrates the cord, it is seldom capable of being removed by operation.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Chase - "Then it's a tuberculoma and something else."
歪酷博客 Ycool Blog 2008
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Foreman - "A tuberculoma doesn't give you a temperature of
歪酷博客 Ycool Blog 2008
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