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tuberculoid

Definition of tuberculoid

adjective

Medicine
  • resembling tuberculosis or its symptoms.
  • relating to or denoting the milder of the two principal forms of leprosy, marked by few, well-defined lesions similar to those of tuberculosis, often with loss of feeling in the affected areas. Compare with lepromatous.

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