单词 | white plague |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite plague white plague n. = white death n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > tuberculosis decline1783 tubercle1795 tuberculation1822 tuberculization1823 tubercularization1839 tuberculosis1839 tuberculocele1858 white plague1860 tuberculid1868 tuberculoderma1881 white scourge1895 tubercule1901 white death1901 T.B.1912 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor's Story x, in Atlantic Monthly May 611/1 In the dead winter, when the white plague of the North has caged its wasted victims. 1909 World To-Day Sept. 924/1 The menace of the White Plague is appalling. 2003 G. Newton From Victoria to Viagra (Wellcome Trust) 24/1 Expectations were high for the final elimination of the white plague, but almost immediately doctors and scientists were faced with the problem of bacterial resistance to the drug. < as lemmas |
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