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".
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".
That's what it's called, "gastrointestinal tuberculosis"
At one time Tuberculosis was called consumption.
Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium called as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Passed on from bacteria. Either from a person with tuberculosis coughing on them or if they used a cup that someone with tuberculosis just used etcc.. x
The only thing I've heard the skin test for tuberculosis called is the tuberculin skin test.
Tuberculosis is caused by an acid-fast bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis caused due to infection with germs called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The bacteria that causes tuberculosis is mycobacterium tuberculosis an acid fast bacteria
Hey...tuberculosis it self a scientific name for disease.....also abbreviated as T.B. although in clinical practice it also called as"kox" or K-chest for pulmonary(lungs) tuberculosis
Unpasteurized milk can transmit you a type of tuberculosis called as bovine tuberculosis.
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.