tuberculo-comb. form

1858 Lancet 6 Feb. 139/1 (heading) Tuberculocele in a boy; castration.

1895 C. Beck Man. Mod. Theory & Technique Surg. Asepsis xiv. 257 These experiments prove that iodoform possesses decided tuberculocidal influence.

1949 Lancet 13 Aug. 290/2 (title) Neomycin and TB1-698: Two tuberculocidal drugs.

2008 Richmond Times Disp. (Virginia) (Nexis) 27 Dec. a6 Disinfectable or washable files and buffers and other instruments must be washed in soap and water..and then completely immersed in an EPA-registered hospital-grade and tuberculocidal disinfectant solution.

1892 Med. News 23 Jan. 105/2 It has indeed been contended that had Koch succeeded instead of failing to find an effective tuberculocide, he would thereby have done the world the greatest conceivable injury in licensing the weak lunged, narrow-chested, deoxygenated failures to become the breeders of the coming race.

1963 AORN Jrnl. 1 40/1 On the other hand, alcohol is, in the writer's opinion, the best tuberculocide available.

2006 D. Farb & B. Gordon Infection Control Healthcare Facilities Guidebook 54 Mycobacteria, most viruses, and bacteria are killed with a chemical germicide registered as a tuberculocide by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

1891 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 24 Nov. 4/5 Prof. Klebs, of Zurich..reports successful experiments with tuberculin, prepared after his own method. He applies minimum doses of his preparation, which he termed ‘Tuberculocidin’.

1895 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IX. 903/1 Tuberculin yields about two and a half per cent. of tuberculocidin.

1913 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Nov. 1414/1 The last two decades of his [sc. Professor Edwin Klebs] life were devoted to the preparation of bacterial products for the treatment of tuberculosis, of which ‘tuberculocidin’ and ‘antiphthisin’ may be mentioned.

1881 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 26 ii. 1051 Auspitz adheres to Virchow's definition of granuloma as those diseased processes in which, combined with an abundant proliferation of cell elements, the embryonal condition is maintained with little change throughout, and includes under it lupus, scrofuloderma, tuberculoderma, lepra (Asiatica), syphiloderma, rhinoscleroma, and granuloma fungoides.

1915 Jrnl. Cutaneous Dis. 33 379 The tuberculodermata constituted a distinct and relatively simple group, and this term seemed to be worthy of adoption by the Association.

1957 A.M.A. Arch. Dermatol. 75 638/2 Most tuberculodermas arise in tissues which are exposed or may be chilled, such as the face, legs, and fingertips.

1997 Clin. & Exper. Dermatol. 22 198 We report the case of a 42-year-old man with a 13-year history of bilateral faciocervical infiltrative erythema, which had been misdiagnosed as tuberculoderma.

1871 Med. Times & Gaz. 1 July 5/2 Hereditary predisposition, existing cachexia, and the special nature of the influences which have produced the disease play an important part in determining its future characters—i.e., whether it shall be pneumonic, tuberculo-pneumonic, or tuberculo-fibroid.

1894 A. Clark et al. Fibroid Dis. Lung v. 121 Let us pass on to give a brief description of tuberculo-fibroid disease, pointing out wherein it differs from the pure fibroid variety.

1920 W. Overend Radiogr. Chest I. vi. 65 The presence of the dust hinders the development of existing tubercle, and converts what might become an ordinary common phthisis into a mild, very slowly progressive fibroid form. In other words, it is tuberculo-fibroid in character.

1905 A. E. Wright in Lancet 2 Dec. 1601/1 The tuberculo-opsonic power of the blood in these cases appears to be uniformly inferior to that of the normal blood.

1928 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Aug. 244/1 Of the other indirect methods of diagnosis, the complement-fixation test and the tuberculo-opsonic index have fallen into disuse on account of their uncertain value.

2000 L. B. Reichman & E. S. Hershfield Tuberculosis (ed. 2) i. 25 Experiments with other diagnostic tests such as the tuberculo-opsonic index initiated by Wright in 1905 and complement fixation methods in the early 1900s were abandoned.

1894 16th Ann. Rep. State Board Health Connecticut 168 If there was a tuberculophobia, we wouldn't be using drinking vessels in common with these pest-pervaded people.

1901 Lancet 27 July 192/1 Tuberculophobia must not be produced, the patient must not be made a pariah.

1944 Lancet 18 Nov. 665/2 A patient when first diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis usually suffers more intensely still from tuberculophobia and feels impelled to ask questions and to seek reassurance.

2001 M. J. Churchwell Palm Springs ii. 37 Subtlety was not part of the change in attitude as tuberculophobia took over the Southwest.

1898 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 50 561 The tuberculoplasmin is a clear, amber-yellow liquid, containing much coagulable albumin.

1900 Buck's Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (new ed.) I. 692/2 Buchner, by crushing under a great pressure tubercle bacilli mixed with sand and thus squeezing out their protoplasm, has obtained a similar substance, which he calls ‘Tuberculoplasmin’.

1921 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 479/2 Eighty pages of this monumental work are devoted to the therapeutic use of tuberculin and its modifications, such as the bacilli emulsion.., tuberculoplasmin, [etc.].

1894 W. H. Welch in W. Pepper Text-bk. Theory & Pract. Med. II. 53 Prudden suggests that, in addition to these positively chemotactic tuberculo-proteins, living tubercle bacilli produce in the body two other classes of poisons.

1912 L. V. Hamman & S. Wolman Tuberculin in Diagnosis & Treatm. iii. 231 Tuberculocidin represents the attempts by Klebs to purify tuberculin by alcohol and bismuth precipitation... He also produced tuberculo-protein and tuberculo-sozin.

1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xvi. 218 In many cases the presence of sensitivity can be demonstrated by skin-reactions to tuberculo-protein or streptococci.

2012 Medicine 40 341/2 In 90% of the otherwise healthy population, it will never become active. This situation, which is usually associated with a positive skin test to tuberculo-protein, is termed ‘latent tuberculosis’.

1871 E. D. Cope in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1869–70 11 176 It resembles the tubercular sectorial of the bear.]

1886 J. L. Wortman in W. F. Litch Amer. Syst. Dentistry I. ii. 429 The true molars are quadritubercular, or rather intermediate between the tuberculo-sectorial and quadritubercular patterns.

1891 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1890 42 61 This portion resembles the tuberculo-sectorials of Paleonictis.

1951 G. R. de Beer Vertebr. Zool. (ed. 2) xviii. 230 The primitive shape of the molar teeth..of the lower jaw have three cusps and a posterior ‘heel’ or talonid, and are called tuberculo-sectorial.

2011 T. A. Vaughan et al. Mammalogy (ed. 5) xv. 283/1 Holocene leaf-nosed bats probably evolved from an ancestral type that had tuberculosectorial teeth.

1866 Med. & Surg. Reporter 10 Mar. 190/2 Celsus applied the word alphos to the affection (tuberculo-squamous) so named, now, by Wilson.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 592 Rupial sore; tuberculo-squamous eruption.

1921 H. W. Stelwagon Treat. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) 245 The tuberculosquamous syphilid is a late or tertiary manifestation.

1941 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 56 1286 The tests commonly employed to determine the tuberculostatic action of drugs..do not take into account the biochemical reactions between the invading micro-organism and host.

1971 Nature 4 June 301/1 We recently proposed structure (I) for the tuberculostatic antibiotic viomycin.

2011 G. Gross & S. K. Tyring Sexually Transmitted Infections & Sexually Transmitted Dis. xxvi. 306/1 Simultaneous beginning of antiretroviral and tuberculostatic therapy is problematic because of drug interactions and toxicity.

1906 E. P. Anshutz tr. E. von Behring in Homœopathic Envoy 17 54/2 The scientific principles of this new tuberculotherapy [Ger. Tuberkulosetherapie] are yet to be established, just as the scientific principles of my antitoxic serum therapy remain to be explained.

1907 F. W. F. Ross in N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 9 Nov. 869/2 (heading) Tuberculotherapy in tuberculosis.

1954 Brit. Jrnl. Tuberculosis & Dis. Chest 48 286 (title) Intravenous P.A.S. [= p-amino salicylic acid] in relation to pulmonary tuberculotherapy.

1996 T. F. Mauger & E. L. Craig Mosby's Ocular Drug Handbk. v. 151 Such reactions are very uncommon despite widespread use of rifampin in tuberculotherapy.

1901 Amer. Med. 1 571/1 Klebs..believes that butter containing tubercle bacilli is harmful, not alone by reason of these bacilli, the virulence of which is not great, but also on account of the presence of tuberculotoxins.

1939 Jrnl. Pediatrics 15 689 These two children..showed evidence of hemorrhagic focal reactions around their unstabilized tuberculous lesions which can only be interpreted as reactions to tuberculotoxins.

1903 A. E. Wright in Lancet 25 July 216/1 We may turn to the consideration of the phenomena which would manifest themselves in our capillary pipette in the case of a patient in whose blood tuberculotropic substances have been developed.

2010 Microbes & Infection 12 101/2 Serum agglutinins, as putative tuberculosis protective substances (i.e. the tuberculo-tropic substances, according to Ehrlich's nomenclature) were first tested by Koch based on previous studies from Arloing.