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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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Which of these diseases was originally known as consumption?

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What was tuberculosis once called?

At one time Tuberculosis was called consumption.


What is the medical term meaning 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.


What formerly call consumption?

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Disease consumption old name?

It is an old word for the disease Tuberculosis.


What disease does Nicole kidman's character in Moulin Rouge have?

She had TB (tuberculosis), or what was commonly referred to as "consumption" in those days.


What is consumption that Beethoven parents died from?

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What is the illness called consumption?

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.


How did Charles.E Goddard died?

consumption (tuberculosis)


Who was the first person to get 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".


What is an example of a sentence using the word consumption?

Consumption was a serious disease that is now known as tuberculosis.


What did tuberculosis used to be called?

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".