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TUBERCULOSIS
Definition of TUBERCULOSIS
noun
An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.
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Where it comes from
To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin tūberculōsis, from Latin tūberculum (diminutive of tūber (“lump”)) + Latin -ōsis (“diseased condition”); by surface analysis, tubercul(um) + -osis; named for the encapsulated colonies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within the lungs in pulmonary tuberculosis, which can look like small tubers (tubercles) on gross pathology. The disease has existed throughout human experience and had other names for millennia before scientific medicine renamed it with a New Latin term in the mid-19th century (1840s); in English it was called consumption because of the wasting away that consumed health and seemed even to consume flesh in some cases (for example, causing fistulas and tissue breakdown).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TUBERCULOSIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TUBERCULOSIS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCEILORSSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and S appear more than once.
Words that start TUBERCUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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