POTT'S DISEASE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Pott's disease" is a kind of...):

T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (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))

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