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A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.

uaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

ngs, causing consumption. Tubercle bacillus (Med.), a minute vegetable organism (Bacillus tuberculosis) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue, and believed to be the exciting cause of tubercles and tuberculosis.

To infect with tuberculosis. --Tu*ber`cu*lar*i*za"tion (#), n.

Affected with tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.