mycobacterium tuberculosis

1. 1.

   cause of tuberculosis

   Synonymstubercle bacillus

   Broadermycobacteria

Questions about mycobacterium tuberculosis

What does mycobacterium tuberculosis mean?

mycobacterium tuberculosis means "cause of tuberculosis".

What is another word for mycobacterium tuberculosis?

Close synonyms include tubercle bacillus. 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 mycobacterium tuberculosis a common word?

mycobacterium 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.