t.b.

Questions about t.b.

What does t.b. mean?

t.b. means "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)".

How many syllables are in t.b.?

t.b. has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for t.b.?

Close synonyms include tuberculosis, TB. 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 t.b. a common word?

t.b. is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.