king's evil

1. 1.

   a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands

   Synonymsscrofulastruma

   Broadertuberculosis

Questions about king's evil

What does king's evil mean?

king's evil means "a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands".

What is another word for king's evil?

Close synonyms include scrofula, struma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is king's evil a common word?

king's evil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.