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ali m
11-20-2007, 08:08 AM
...tuberculosis especially in slang?
Alexandra
11-22-2007, 02:08 PM
The only one I know is... TB That's what we always call it and the doctors I know so yea.. Hope this helps.
mitzy
11-22-2007, 11:59 PM
consumption ~ slang for pulminary tuberculosis.lunger ~ slang for someone with tuberculosis.Buck Irish (slang) term for tuberculosis
qwerty
11-23-2007, 07:39 AM
TBconsumptionlunger (someone with tuberculosis)Kochs (named for the guy who discovered the bacteria that causes the disease)There are probably others, but those are the most common ones. "Kochs" is specifically medical slang - something that doctors use amongst themselves as kind of an inside joke.Sometimes you might also hear people refer to tuberculosis as "Victorian Novel Disease." In pulp novels at the end of the 19th century, the hero or heroine (usually a child) often dies of a mysterious illness, probably tuberculosis.