英文词源
- tuberculosis
- tuberculosis: see truffle
- tuberculosis (n.)
- 1860, "disease characterized by tubercules," a medical Latin hybrid, from Latin tuberculum "small swelling, pimple," diminutive of tuber "lump" (see tuber) + -osis, a suffix of Greek origin. So called in reference to the tubercules which form in the lungs. Originally in reference to any disease characterized by tubercules; since the discovery in 1882 of the tubercule bacillus by German bacteriologist Robert Koch (1843-1910) restricted to disease caused by this. Abbreviation T.B. attested from 1912.
中文词源
tuberculosis：结核病
tubercle,肺结核结节，-osis,表疾病。引申词义结核病。
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