TUBERCULOSIS
ADJECTIVES
► CHESTY of tuberculosis or pneumonia: weak in the chest → 20C colloq.
► CONSUMPTED having tuberculosis → 1894 Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► ALPHABETS, THE tuberculosis → 1970 Amer. dial.
► ARIZONA TENOR the tuberculosis cough → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BOGALOSHA tuberculosis → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BOT, THE tuberculosis, or other chest complaint → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BREAST COMPLAINT tuberculosis → 1931 Amer. dial.
► BUG, THE tuberculosis → 1942 Amer. dial.
► BUGS tuberculosis → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CON tuberculosis. consumption → 1916 Amer. dial.
► COUGHING SICKNESS tuberculosis → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FAILING DISEASE tuberculosis → 1911 Amer. dial.
► GRAVEYARD COUGH a severe cough, esp. one associated with tuberculosis → 1873 Amer. dial.
► HASTY CONSUMPTION tuberculosis → 1968 Amer. dial.
► HEAVES tuberculosis → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HICKEY, THE tuberculosis → 1968 Amer. dial.
► LAAD-MI-DON a tuberculosis sanatorium → 1940s W. Indies
► LAD, THE cancer or tuberculosis → 1997 Ireland
► LUNG-FEVER pneumonia; tuberculosis → 1823
► LUNGS, THE tuberculosis → 1950s US sl.
► PHTHISIOMANIA an abnormal interest in tuberculosis → 1991 (Bk.)
► PHTHISIOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of tuberculosis → 1991 (Bk.)
► PREVENTORIUM an institution where preventive care is given to people at risk from disease, esp. tuberculosis → 1907 orig. US
► QUICK CON ► QUICK CONSUMPTION a virulent wasting disease, esp. tuberculosis → 1844 Amer. dial.
► QUICK FEVER a virulent wasting disease, esp. tuberculosis → 1950 Amer. dial.
► STONE ON THE CHEST tuberculosis → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TISTICA tuberculosis → 1967 Amer. dial.
► TIZZICK a consumption, a shortness of breath; asthma; tuberculosis → 1835 Amer. dial.
► TUBERCULOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of tuberculosis → 1991 (Bk.)
► WHITE DEATH tuberculosis, esp. when epidemic and causing many deaths → 1901
NOUNS – PERSON
► ARIZONA TENOR one who has tuberculosis and coughs → 1942 Amer. dial.
► LUNGER one who is suffering from lung disease, i.e. tuberculosis, or who has been wounded in the lungs → L19 US sl.
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