Definition of Tuberculoid

1. Adjective. Resembling tuberculosis. "Tuberculoid leprosy"

Partainyms: Tuberculosis

Definition of Tuberculoid

1. a. Resembling a tubercle.

Definition of Tuberculoid

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tubercule ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to tuberculosis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tuberculoid

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Tuberculoid

1. Resembling tuberculosis or a tubercle. Origin: tuberculo-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuberculoid

tuberculin
tuberculin-type hypersensitivity
tuberculin skin test
tuberculin test
tuberculin tine test
tuberculins
tuberculitis
tuberculization
tuberculo-
tuberculo-opsonic index
tuberculocele
tuberculochemotherapeutic
tuberculocidal
tuberculoderma
tuberculofibroid
tuberculoid (current term)
tuberculoid leprosy
tuberculoid rosacea
tuberculoma
tuberculomas
tuberculomata
tuberculoplasmin
tuberculoprotein
tuberculoses
tuberculosis
tuberculosis: gastrointestinal manifestations
tuberculosis cutis
tuberculosis cutis follicularis disseminata
tuberculosis cutis luposa
tuberculosis cutis orificialis

Literary usage of Tuberculoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"tuberculoid LEPROSY tuberculoid leprosy is regarded by Wade (1935) and others as a variety of the neural type. It is characterized by the appearance of ..."

2. Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Its Complications, with Special Reference to by Sherman Grant Bonney (1910)
"... designated as the "tuberculoid bacilli." In the former the differences are so susceptible of detection as to permit an entirely separate classification ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1903)
"While the lesions so far resemble tuberculosis, the termination is different; in tuberculosis caseation, in case of the tuberculoid bacilli, suppuration or ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1832)
"... I found, in a dilated membranous cavity or cyst; each minute tube contained a single worm ; and each tuberculoid cyst was occupied by a single extremity ..."

5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1885)
"Lung, 15£ ozs., not collapsed, bronchi exude pus on pressure, upper lobe studded with tuberculoid deposits like fish roe. ..."

6. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"In Dr. Hyde's case the histology corresponded with the tuberculoid type. In this case the lesions were indolent, subcutaneous nodules and abscesses. ..."

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