Log in or Sign up
  1. tubercle bacillus love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A rod-shaped aerobic bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that causes tuberculosis.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) a minute vegetable organism (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, formerly Bacillus tuberculosis, and also called Koch's bacillus) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue. It is the causative agent of tuberculosis.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. cause of tuberculosis

Examples

  • “Both Claude Bernard and Virchow had expressed their respective ideas before Robert Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus in 1882 won the decisive vic - tory for the germ theory of disease.”

    HEALTH AND DISEASE

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. mycobacteria
  1. mycobacterium

reverse dictionary (20)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. robert koch
  2. Koch
  3. Mantoux test
  4. tuberculosis
  1. tuberculocide
  2. tuberculoma
  3. tuberculo-opsonic
  4. tuberculotropic
  1. tuberculin test
  2. t.b.
  3. tuberculous
  4. test
  1. cycloserine
  2. tubercular
  3. acid-fast
  4. tuberculin
  1. pseudobacillus
  2. pseudotubercle
  3. Tc
  4. t

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

‘tubercle bacillus’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for tubercle bacillus.

‘tubercle bacillus’ has been looked up 267 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.