Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) The most common form of active tuberculosis (TB) infecting the lungs.
WordNet
n. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body [syn: consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague]
Usage examples of "pulmonary tuberculosis".
An emulsion made by shaking up equal parts of the oil and powdered gum-arabic with water has been used as a urethral injection, and has also been given internally in drachm doses in pulmonary tuberculosis and other microbic diseases of the lungs and bronchitis.
Later that year, while serving aboard the destroyer Roper, Heinlein contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and was hospitalized.
The attitude could be even more outrageous: a doctor would never catch leprosy through treating lepers, would never develop lung disease by helping sufferers of pulmonary tuberculosis, would never catch a cold from a sneezing patient.
I was eighteen years old, and I had a complete nervous collapse, pulmonary tuberculosis and delirium tremens.
The sum of these two effects on the subject individual was a condition of mild tiredness, somewhat similar to the malaise of the early stages of pulmonary tuberculosis.