| tuberculocidal | Destructive to the tubercle bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| tuberculoderma | 1. Any tubercular process of the skin. 2. The cutaneous manifestation of tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculofibroid | A discrete, well-circumscribed, usually spheroidal, moderately to extremely firm, encapsulated nodule that is formed during the process of healing in a focus of tuberculous granulomatous inflammation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculoid | Resembling tuberculosis or a tubercle. Origin: tuberculo-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculoid leprosy | A benign, stable, and resistant form of the disease in which the lepromin reaction is strongly positive and in which the lesions are erythematous, insensitive, infiltrated plaques with clear-cut edges. Synonym: nodular leprosy, smooth leprosy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculoid rosacea | Papular lesions in rosacea, characterised microscopically by perifollicular granulomas with central necrosis and scattered giant cells. Lupus miliaris disseminatus faciei is probably a form of granulomatous rosacea. Synonym: rosacea-like tuberculid, tuberculoid rosacea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculoma | A tumour-like but non-neoplastic mass, usually in the lungs or brain, due to localised tuberculous infection resulting in the enlargement of a tuberculous lesion. Origin: tuberculo-+ G. -oma, tumour (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculoprotein | Any one, or a mixture of any or all of the proteins present in the body of the tubercle bacillus, all of which have been found to possess certain properties of tuberculin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis | <disease, microbiology> An infection caused by a species of Mycobacterium, still remains a major worldwide health problem. Although deaths from this disease have declined since the 1950's there has been some increase in tuberculosis incidence. Tuberculosis is transmitted from person to person by an aerosol of organisms suspended in tiny droplets that are inhaled. Acronym: TB (27 Sep 1997) |
| tuberculosis cutis | Pathologic lesions of the skin caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Synonym: dermal tuberculosis, tuberculosis cutis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis cutis follicularis disseminata | Dusky-red papules followed by crusting and ulceration primarily on the extremities and predominantly in young adults with a deep focus of tuberculosis or with a history of preceding infection. Synonym: tuberculosis cutis follicularis disseminata, tuberculosis papulonecrotica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis cutis luposa | Cutaneous tuberculosis with characteristic nodular lesions on the face, particularly about the nose and ears. Synonym: lupus tuberculosus, tuberculosis cutis luposa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis cutis orificialis | Any tuberculous lesion in or about the mouth or anus. Synonym: tuberculosis ulcerosa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis cutis verrucosa | A tuberculous skin lesion having a warty surface with a chronic inflammatory base seen on the hands in adults and lower extremities in children, with marked hypersensitivity to tuberculous antigens. See: postmortem wart. Synonym: lupus papillomatosus, lupus verrucosus, tuberculous wart, verrucous scrofuloderma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculosis lymphadenitis | Lymphadenitis resulting from infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis; tuberculosis of the lymph nodes. Synonym: tuberculosis lymphadenitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pitot's tube | <physics> A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Pitot tube | A stationary L-shaped tube inserted in a fluid stream, with its opening upstream, and used for measuring the velocity of fluid movement at that point in terms of the pressure developed in the tube by the fluid impinging on it, compared to a second tube opening laterally or downstream. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Moss tube | A triple-lumen, nasogastric, feeding-decompression tube, that utilises a gastric balloon to occlude cardioesophageal junction, with simultaneous oesophageal aspiration and intragastric feeding, a double-lumen, gastric lavage tube, that provides continuous delivery of saline via a small bore, with simultaneous aspiration of fluid and some particles via a large bore. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mucosa of auditory tube | The lining coat of the auditory tube. Synonym: tunica mucosa tubae auditivae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mucosa of uterine tube | The mucous layer of the uterine tube. Synonym: tunica mucosa tubae uterinae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mucous glands of auditory tube | Glands located principally near the pharyngeal end of the auditory tube. Synonym: glandulae tubariae, glands of auditory tube, glands of eustachian tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| muscular coat of uterine tube | Muscular layer of the wall of the uterine tube. Synonym: tunica muscularis tubae uterinae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Coolidge tube | An X-ray tube, in which the cathode consists of a tungsten wire spiral surrounded by a focusing cup; the tungsten spiral is heated by an electric current; the quantity and quality of the X-rays so generated are regulated by varying the temperature of the cathode and the voltage between cathode and anode. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crookes-Hittorf tube | A simple evacuated tube containing a cathode, that emitted X-rays from the glass envelope when a current was passed through it; the type used by Roentgen to discover X-rays. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Haldane tube | A tube for securing human alveolar air samples; consisting of a narrow hosepipe with a mouthpiece from which a tube is attached for the withdrawal of expired air at the end of a sudden, maximal expiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saemicanal of auditory tube | The inferior division of the musculotubal canal which forms the bony part of the auditory (eustachian) tube. Synonym: saemicanalis tubae auditivae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sengstaken-Blakemore tube | A tube with three lumens, one for drainage of the stomach and two for inflation of attached gastric and oesophageal balloons; used for emergency treatment of bleeding oesophageal varices. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pus tube | Distention of a fallopian tube with pus. Synonym: pus tube. Origin: pyo-+ G. Salpinx, trumpet (tube) (05 Mar 2000) |
| septum of auditory tube | A very thin horizontal plate of bone forming two saemicanals, the upper, smaller, for the tensor tympani muscle, the lower, larger for the auditory tube; its termination in the middle ear is the processus cochleariformis. Synonym: septum canalis musculotubarii, septum of musculotubal canal, septum tubae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| serosa of uterine tube | Serous coat of the uterine tube; the visceral peritoneum forming the outer surface of the uterine tubes. Synonym: tunica serosa tubae uterinae. (05 Mar 2000) |