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wasting disease vs tuberculosis

tuberculosis vs wasting disease

wasting disease and tuberculosis both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
wasting disease Yes No No No
tuberculosis Yes No No No
As nouns, tuberculosis is a hypernym of wasting disease; that is, tuberculosis is a word with a broader meaning than wasting disease:
  • wasting disease: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
  • 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)
Other hypernyms of wasting disease include T.B., TB.
wasting disease (noun) tuberculosis (noun)
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body 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 wasting disease and tuberculosis

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