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Definition of Tuberculoid
1. Adjective. Resembling tuberculosis. "Tuberculoid leprosy"
Definition of Tuberculoid
1. a. Resembling a tubercle.
Definition of Tuberculoid
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tubercule ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to tuberculosis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tuberculoid
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Tuberculoid
1. Resembling tuberculosis or a tubercle. Origin: tuberculo-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuberculoid
Literary usage of Tuberculoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"tuberculoid LEPROSY tuberculoid leprosy is regarded by Wade (1935) and others as
a variety of the neural type. It is characterized by the appearance of ..."
2. Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Its Complications, with Special Reference to by Sherman Grant Bonney (1910)
"... designated as the "tuberculoid bacilli." In the former the differences are so
susceptible of detection as to permit an entirely separate classification ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1903)
"While the lesions so far resemble tuberculosis, the termination is different; in
tuberculosis caseation, in case of the tuberculoid bacilli, suppuration or ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1832)
"... I found, in a dilated membranous cavity or cyst; each minute tube contained
a single worm ; and each tuberculoid cyst was occupied by a single extremity ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1885)
"Lung, 15£ ozs., not collapsed, bronchi exude pus on pressure, upper lobe studded
with tuberculoid deposits like fish roe. ..."
6. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"In Dr. Hyde's case the histology corresponded with the tuberculoid type. In this
case the lesions were indolent, subcutaneous nodules and abscesses. ..."
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