🇬🇧 Tuberculosis meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Tuberculosis is a serious sickness caused by tiny germs that usually go into a person’s lungs. When someone has tuberculosis, they may cough a lot, feel very tired, have a fever, and lose weight. It can spread from one person to another when a sick person coughs or sneezes and someone else breathes in the germs. Doctors can test for tuberculosis and give special medicine that must be taken for many months to get rid of it. Today, there are vaccines and treatments that help protect people from tuberculosis and keep it from spreading.

The health video showed tuberculosis germs flying out when someone coughed, and the entire class leaned back like it was in 3D.

I thought tuberculosis was a new kind of pasta, and now I’ll never look at spaghetti the same way again.

The germs that cause tuberculosis are so sneaky, they could win an award for Best Invisible Villain in a Health Class Movie.

Our teacher told us tuberculosis is so tiny you can’t see it, and I said, “Great, now I’m scared of invisible villains too.”

Tuberculosis is one of the oldest known diseases—scientists even found signs of it in ancient Egyptian mummies, which means those germs have been crashing the human party for thousands of years.

Anna coughed through the night; blood stained a handkerchief. At dawn a doctor said 'tuberculosis', marked tuberculosis on her chart, and put a stethoscope to her chest. Her mother read tuberculosis on a leaflet, bought bitter pills labeled tuberculosis care, and sat by Anna as the cough thinned. Weeks later, breath came easier and they wept and whispered tuberculosis.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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