WordCmp.com

TB vs infectious disease

infectious disease vs TB

TB and infectious disease both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
TB Yes No No No
infectious disease Yes No No No
As nouns, infectious disease is a hypernym of TB; that is, infectious disease is a word with a broader meaning than TB:
  • TB: 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)
  • infectious disease: a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
TB (noun) infectious disease (noun)
a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
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)
Difference between TB and infectious disease

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.