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pseudotuberculosis

[ soo-doh-too-bur-kyuh-loh-sis, -tyoo- ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. an acute, sometimes fatal disease of rodents, birds, and other animals, including humans, caused by the bacterium Yersinia (Pasteurella) pseudotuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules resembling those that result from tuberculosis.
  2. any disease resembling tuberculosis but caused by an organism other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pseudotuberculosis1

First recorded in 1895–1900; pseudo- + tuberculosis; pseudotuberculosis def 1 after the species name of the bacterium causing the disease

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