Researching in an attempt to find a specific date when consumption was changed to tuberculosis has been difficult. The best information available tends to lead one to believe that this change occurred around 1950. Consumption can still refer to the terminal stage of tuberculosis.
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At one time Tuberculosis was called consumption.
The medical term for consumption is "tuberculosis." Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily affects the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. The term "consumption" was historically used to describe the wasting away of the body that often occurred in advanced stages of tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis.
It is an old word for the disease Tuberculosis.
She had TB (tuberculosis), or what was commonly referred to as "consumption" in those days.
Consumption was another word for tuberculosis.
Consumption was a historical term for tuberculosis, a bacterial infection primarily affecting the lungs. It was once a major public health concern before the development of antibiotics.
consumption (tuberculosis)
Tuberculosis is named for the bacterium that causes it, "mycobacterium tuberculosis", which was first "seen" by Robert Koch, a German physician. Tuberculosis used to be called "consumption".
Consumption was a serious disease that is now known as tuberculosis.
The name comes from the small lumps or "tubercules" that form in the lungs. "Tubercule" is the diminuitive of the Latin word "tuber" that comes to us unchanged to describe a type of fleshy root in English. It could be translated literally as "small potato".