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TUBERCULOID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tuberculoid mean?
• TUBERCULOID (adjective)
The adjective TUBERCULOID has 1 sense:
1. resembling tuberculosis
Familiarity information: TUBERCULOID used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling tuberculosis
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
tuberculoid leprosy
Pertainym:
tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))
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