pulmonary tuberculosis

1. 1.

   involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

   Synonymsconsumptionphthisiswasting diseasewhite plague

   Broadertuberculosis

Questions about pulmonary tuberculosis

What does pulmonary tuberculosis mean?

pulmonary tuberculosis means "involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body".

What is another word for pulmonary tuberculosis?

Close synonyms include consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague. 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 pulmonary tuberculosis a common word?

pulmonary 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.