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pulmonary tuberculosis vs TB

TB vs pulmonary tuberculosis

pulmonary tuberculosis and TB both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pulmonary tuberculosis Yes No No No
TB Yes No No No
As nouns, TB is a hypernym of pulmonary tuberculosis; that is, TB is a word with a broader meaning than pulmonary tuberculosis:
  • pulmonary tuberculosis: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
  • 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)
Other hypernyms of pulmonary tuberculosis include T.B., tuberculosis.
pulmonary tuberculosis (noun) TB (noun)
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
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 pulmonary tuberculosis and TB

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