Nama lainnya...

Nama2 laen bg tb (tuberculosis) adalah...

1- consumption, because it seemed to consume people from within, with a bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting.

2- phthisis (Greek for consumption) and phthisis pulmonalis

3- scrofula (in adults), affecting the lymphatic system and resulting in swollen neck glands

4- tabes mesenterica, TB of the abdomen

5- Lupus vulgaris, TB of the skin

6- wasting disease

7- king's evil, because it was believed that a king's touch would heal scrofula

8- Pott's disease, or gibbus of the spine and joints.

9- Miliary tuberculosis now commonly known as disseminated TB—occurs when the infection invades the circulatory system resulting in lesions which have the appearance of millet seeds on X-ray.

10- TB is also called Koch's disease after the scientist Robert Koch

11- white plague, because sufferers appear markedly pale

Nama yg melayu bg utk tb cam x ssuai plak...bkn batuk kering semata...belambak lg simptoms laen tp yg ketara nya mmg batuk la...tp x kering..slalunya ada darah..so sy still rs x ssuai..