tubercle bacillus

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   cause of tuberculosis

   SynonymsMycobacterium tuberculosis

   Broadermycobacteria

Questions about tubercle bacillus

What does tubercle bacillus mean?

tubercle bacillus means "cause of tuberculosis".

What is another word for tubercle bacillus?

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

tubercle bacillus 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.