miliary tuberculosis

1. 1.

   acute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream)

   Broadertuberculosis

Questions about miliary tuberculosis

What does miliary tuberculosis mean?

miliary tuberculosis means "acute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream)".

Is miliary tuberculosis a common word?

miliary tuberculosis 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.