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TB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("TB" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "TB"):
G; GB; GiB; gibibyte; gigabyte (a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes)
Holonyms ("TB" is a part of...):
PB; pebibyte; petabyte; PiB (a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
Synonyms:
TB; terabyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("TB" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "TB"):
G; GB; gigabyte (a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes)
Holonyms ("TB" is a part of...):
PB; petabyte (a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("Tb" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "Tb"):
Gb; Gbit; gigabit (a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits)
Holonyms ("Tb" is a part of...):
Pb; Pbit; petabit (a unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits)
Sense 4
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
T.B.; TB; tuberculosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("TB" is a kind of...):
infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "TB"):
Pott's disease (TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine)
miliary tuberculosis (acute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream))
consumption; phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease; white plague (involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body)
king's evil; scrofula; struma (a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands)
lupus vulgaris (tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
Synonyms:
atomic number 65; Tb; terbium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Tb" is a kind of...):
metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)
Holonyms ("Tb" is a substance of...):
apatite (a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus)
gadolinite; ytterbite (a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium)
monazite (a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium)
Context examples:
It's unknown if bovine TB bacteria transmit more efficiently than other TB bacteria, what traits this pathogen possesses that allow infection of so many different species of mammals, and what happens when the host is co-infected with parasites or HIV.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
Murray said the next step is to study whether adding vitamin A to antibiotics, given to family members of a loved one with TB, would offer additional protection against the disease.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
The investigators concluded that IV BCG conferred an unprecedented degree of protection in an animal model of severe TB and “represents a major step forward in the field of TB vaccine research.”
(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)
Current TB treatment takes six months, largely to outlast the persisters.
(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)
They found that animals treated for worms were nine times more likely to survive TB infections than untreated animals; with the worms gone, their immune systems were able to mount a stronger defense against TB.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
Megan Murray of Harvard's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine said investigators followed the participants who lived with someone with TB for one year.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
Given to infants via a needle placed just under the skin, BCG protects babies from a form of the disease called disseminated TB but is far less effective at preventing pulmonary TB, the major cause of illness and deaths, in teens or adults.
(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine microbiologist William Jacobs and colleagues previously discovered by accident that antioxidants like vitamin C stopped TB bacteria in a test tube from becoming persisters.
(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)
In a new study of African buffalo, University of Georgia (UGA) ecologist Vanessa Ezenwa has found that de-worming drastically improves an animal's chances of surviving bovine tuberculosis—but with the consequence of increasing the spread of TB in the population.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
Researchers at Harvard Medical School found that having a vitamin A deficiency, common among some 30 percent of the world’s population in mostly developing nations, was a potent predictor of TB disease risk.
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
